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These travels, generally performed on foot, contain good accounts of the antiquities, and some notices of the natural history, manners, &c. of those parts of England and Wales to which they respectively relate. Pennant's Tours from Downing to Alston Moor from Alston Moor to Harrowgate and Brimham Cross Journey from London to the Isle of Wight. 2 vols.
There! my breath has set them in motion. Look, they shake, shake, shake, like the great rocking-stones at Brimham Crags." "That is comparing small things to great, indeed!" said Mr. Percival. "By-the-by," cried Mr. Vincent, "Miss Portman has never seen those wonderful rocking-stones suppose we were to ride to see them to-morrow?"
Up to almost the end of the thirteenth century the builders used a coarse gritstone such as is found five miles to the south-west at Brimham Rocks, and also a finer gritstone or sandstone that may have come from Hackfall. After that date they built with magnesian limestone, brought partly, perhaps, from near York, but chiefly, it would seem, from Quarry Moor, a mile south of the city.
The proposal was warmly seconded by the children, and agreed to by every one. It was settled, that after they had seen Brimham Crags they should spend the remainder of the day at Lord C 's beautiful place in the neighbourhood.
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