Gents Mag 1790 p.18

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1790 p.18 Jan. 19. Mr. URBAN, IN your vol.LIX. p.799, D.G. describes a stone, which, he tells us, was found in a rivulet in the North of Cumberland, and which he supposes is evidently shaped by art, for the purpose of war, of hunting, or the sacrificing of victims by the Druids. The plate you have given is no doubt descriptive of its figure; but it is to be lamented that your correspondent has not given its weight, specific gravity, compossition, or any account of its external appearance: not does he, in my opinion, assign any weighty reasons for supposing it to be of human invention. From a stone of a somewhat similar appearance which I have seen, I am inclined to suspect it to be rather a production of Nature than of Art; but this I speak with all possible deference, because we have not sufficient data given in his account, to ascertain whether it is of a similar kind with that I have to describe, or not.

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