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Gentleman's Magazine 1748 p.180
high, 14 inches diameter one way, and 12 the other, exactly equal to the breadth of the base, and wrought over with a kind of net-work, probably taken from the cone of a fir-apple. Its most singular curiosity is, that plinth and spheroid make but one entire stone, contrary to the custom of the moderns spiking their globes. I am persuaded if the whole funeral obelisk had been entire, it would have been one of the most curious of the kind yet discovered. At present it lies in a back yard, useless and disregarded.
Yours, &c. G.S.
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