The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-05-26
HOW BoULDERS TRAVEL.

hills or mountains to which they originally be-
iouged How were such enormous masses NAps.
portsd, They often weigh many tons, aud 10
ordinary agency could have avai,ed Tor locomotion.
Hugh Miller, III his volume on Popular GsoioSy. "
iass published by Gould Lincoln, gives the
credit of such gigantic facts to iceoerss ana gives
an elaborate ument TO prove that Great Britain,
North Europe, New England, much OF the North
American continent, was once covered hy an Arc
tic ocean, which, icebergs Dated, as they nov
career 10 Baffiu's Bay Ia Illustration OF ,ne
power of ice to transport bcuders he gives
two well known facts, which are much to the
point
.,Some of my audience may have heard offs boul-
der well known on both sides Of the Moray Frith
as the travelled Stone OF Petty" district ~bicn
includes the Moor OF Culoden. and at whose par.
ish church Hector Boece saw the gigantic bones oil
the colossal Little John. Tho Claca dhu n-Aosn,
Or b. ck stone Of ths white bo8-for such Is the
uranhically descriptive Gaelic name of The mOss-
measures about six feet in height, by from SIX TO
seven feet in breadth aud thickness, and served
up TO the 19:h February, 1893, rs mark stone
between the proper lies O Castle stuart and tui'
Iodeu l. lay lust within fl pod mark, near where
u little stream empties itself into shallow sandy
bay. There mad been q severe, long Continued
frost throughout the early part OF the month, and
the Gppsr portions Of the bay had stI1ired, NANNY
thror IN the agency of the stresmlet, continuous
covering of ice that had attained, rou"d the base
of the stone which it clasped fast, thickness OF
eighteen inches
@0u the night of the 10 d the tide rose unusu.
ally high on the beach, and there broke out a
vioeu Hurricane from the easi-southeast, acc"ms
panied py q snow storm. There is a meal mile IN
the immediate neighborhood Of the stone; aud
when the o ID miIier-as he related the story to
the late Sir Thos. Dick Lsuder-got up on the
morning of the Goth, 80 violent was the storm,
and 80 huge ths'snow wreaths that blocked up
eyery window and door, aud rose over the caves,
tina, he cJuld hardly make bis way to his barns,
a i,uruey of but u lew yards; and In returning
again from them 20 his dwelling, he narrowly ess
capped losing himself in the drift. In looking to-
Of fhan nf fha
he coud sc ,rce credit his eye sight, the immsuss
Clsch dhu n.Aban had disappeared-vanished-
gone Clean off the ground; and he cAilad to his
wife in astonishmeut and alarm. that the "maiGle
stane was AVA.
.rhe honest WON N looked out, and then rubbed
her eyes as if verify their evidence but the, fact
was uuuuestionabe, the make stone certainly
swasaws' aud there remained but a hollow PIT IN
the sand with long, shallow furrOw, stretching
from the pit outwards to where the snow rime
closed thick over the Sea, to mark where it bad
bsen. When, however, the weather cleared up, the
stons again became visible. lying out IN the
sand, unc yverea by the ebb, $50 feet from its for
mer position. In the evening of the day the neigh.
bors ocked by scores to examine the scene OF
80 extraordinary a prodigy. Where the stone had
lain they fouad bat the deep dent, connected by
the furrow which lay athwart the bay In the line
of the hurricane, with the stone ITSELF arouud the
base of watch there still projected thick cornice
of ice Ia this new position the stone still, and
only fow years ago-alsyhap, stili-a wooden post
which marked tie point where Abe two contiguous
properties met-marked also the spot from, which,
af Of ages, it had set out on its short voy.
age. 49,
respects a more curious case than the one related
occurred early the present century the
coast Of Sou Their aadshire. Near tue small hamlet
OF rorribsl, in the upper part OF Loeb Fleet here
stood, about fifty years ago, rude obeiisk OF un.
dressed stone, generally regarded as Danish, VII ch
though more ancient than authentic history, or
even trnditoo, in the district was ess 80 than the
old coast line, as 1t bad besn evidently erecte
subsequent to the last change OF level on the II
marginal strip which iuterveues between the old
line aud the 1t rose in the middle OF u swa mpy
hollow, which protracted rains sometimes con.
verified into a strip OF water and which was some~
times swep, by the overhowngs of the neighbor.
ing river.
'On the eve of the incident which proved the
Terminating one 10 It's history. the hollow. previ-
ousIv filled with rain water, had been fr' 81 to
tho bottom by continued frost, which was. how
ever on the eve of breaking up; and u dense fog
Law thick in the valley, When beuighted Hi.h
lander, returning tpsy from q market by the light
OF the moon, came staggering In the direction OF
the standing sione aDo IN drunken trolc SGT his
bonnet on the top OF il; aud then, wandering off
into the mist he lost sight of both stone aad bon
net, aud falling to regain them, rs had to return
bareheaded to his bone. The thaw came Cd; the
river over its banks; the ice.cake around the
obeiisk Fl ,ated high above ths level, wreDching
up the obeiisk along with IL, As the ice If the s.:
Lawrence wrenched up the stakes described by Sir
Charles Lyeii, ana DOtH iCS CAKE huU OOefi6k
hoated down the och to the sea. As the morning
broke-s fierce morning of bod and tempest
they were seen passing what was some forty years
ago known the Little Ferry; the alarm went
abroad along the shores on both sides, that there
was . standing in the middle of the loeb on
the )ating Ice, and In course OF being swept out
to the
"Poor man he had been crossing the river IL was
Inferred, when the ice broke up. and, though the
enterprise q somewhat perious one, for the
ice fragments were rushing furiGusly along GU the
wild tide of the loeb maddened by the inundaton,
boat double-panned,s shot ont from the shore TO the
aud reached the drifting caf Dc. 1t WAS
ultimately seen, however, that the supposed
msu was but u Danish obe!isk bearing on its head
mysterious bonnet; and bonnet and obeisk were
left TO lind their way 10 the German Ocean, In
which il Is probable they both lie. These
modern instances Of boulder traveii0K may serve
to show how huge soues originally associated with
the boulder clay may have come TO rest on the
arenaceous or graveiy deposits which overlie it
Through the .econd voyage of the Petty 'houdsr Il
was deposited on recently deposited bed OF sand;
and he standing stone Of rorribal may nos rest on
sea shells that we're living half century ago"
A FsExcaMAxs VERSION OF SHAKEsPEARE-"Ah
your Mossiea' Shak.spirel He 10 gr'a-a-nd-mys
terteuse-soo-biime! You ave reads the re
Mscsbess?--zs scene of re M0ssieu' Mscsbess! Wis
re Vitch-eh. Superb soobiime Wen DO say
10 ~ Witch, 'Ar.r-roynt ze, VitchF shAgo away
but what she say when she go awsyi She say she
will do someshipg dat AYES got no name! All,
hap say Il go, like rs r.rss-t vizont 70 taiI-but,
PHI dol I'll dol IN doP Wat she dot Alb, la ?
villa Ie grad mysteriouse Mossieu' Shak-es- pei
She not say what she dol"
This soas grand" TO be surei but the proves
Of Macbeth, 10 bis shout" witbiAacduf, awakens
all the mercnrial Frenchman's martial ardor:
"Mossieu' Macabess, he sees him come close by;
be cay (prcud eBspressemenf) Cboms o on, Mosisn
Macadufs, aud id be he who first says, .Eao1sl =
Z5n sey d 1 ght moche. All hs!-voiiai Mossisu'
Macabsss, Wis bis brrght r-r-rappier pink him.
r.. you call, 10 bis body. He avs gOss nal nal
asstomac; he cay, Wis grand simpitctte. Ener1'
what tor he say 'EsoyFsf 'Causs DO got enc as-
piasn'y, and he expire, rsr-riget away, @sds,
ELakes.pier il rising mas Ia La bella Frsnce!"
knickertOcker.
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