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Gentleman's Magazine vol.22 p.372, 1752:-
Further Remarks upon long Meg and her DAUGHTERS. (see p.311.)
THE Vulgar notion that the largest of these stones has breasts, and resembles the remainder of a female statue, is caused by the whimsical irregularity of the figure, in which a fervid imagination may discover a resemblance of almost any thing; as various figures are discovered in burning coals, veins of marble, and floating clouds, which cannot possibly be pointed out to another, tho' to another
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