Gents Mag 1747 p.525

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1747 p.525 accounts given me. Those who treat it as a mere illusion or deceptio visus, should assign reasons for so large a fascination in above 20 persons; probably one, indeed, might serve to aggrandize the fancy of others, but I should think they could not be so universally deceiv'd without some stamina of the likeness exhibited on the mountain from a meteor, or some unknown cause. It is singularly remarkable, that most of all these mountains have their precipices fronting the West and Northwest, which is a strong collateral proof of the Earth's motion, because the diurnal revolution would naturally throw off all the loose strata in its fluid state to the opposite quarter, and the concurring suffrage of travellers in the same properties of foreign mountains, where reasons are not obvious for their being otherwise, much strengthens the argument. I shall reserve my further observations in my surveys of the several parts of England for your new intended maps. Those which have of late appeared are entirely old things, and not worth looking on; for tho' you mention but eleven parks omitted in that of Berks, I can affirm there are no less than fourteen; and in their map of Bucks, I could not imagine that a noble duke's seat so near London and the present road to the shire town should be omitted; so that I need not wonder at their losing credit every day. I am, Sir, &c.
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