PHILIP STRANGE.

_Logan or Rocking Stones._--The following extract from Sir C. Anderson's

_Eight Weeks' Journal in Norway, &c. in 1852_, under July 21, may interest

your Devonshire and Cornish readers:

"Mr. De C----k, a most intelligent Danish gentleman, told me, that when

a proprietor near Drammen, was at Bjornholm Island, in the Baltic, he

was told there were stones which made a humming noise when pushed, and

on examination they proved to be rocking-stones; on his return, he

found on his own property several large stones, which, on removing the

earth around them, were so balanced as to be moveable. If this be an

accurate statement, it tends to strengthen the notion that stones, laid

upon each other by natural causes, have, by application of a little

labour, been made to move, as the stones at Brimham Craggs in

Yorkshire; and this seems more likely than that such immense masses

should have been ever raised by mechanical force and poised."

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