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ROCKING STONE [nr Cullch] Rocking Stone
Rocking Stone
Rocking Stone
Mr. Alexander Taylor
Mr. John Donaldson
Mr. Hugh McQueen
106 A large boulder of a globular shape, eight feet in diameter, and lying on the ground in such a way that a man, by exerting all his strength, is capable of giving it a very slight motion, Form the name a person would be led to suppose it an antiquity, but it is not. The people of the neighbourhood believe that it rolled, by a natural cause, from a high ridge of ground immediately above it, and through time the surface became worn round it which admits of its being so easily moved.

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