So Thick Is The Bed,
And So Small The Particles, That If A Traveller Should Be Caught By
A Sudden Gust In Dry Weather, He Would Find It Very Difficult To
Escape With Life.
For natural curiosities, I was shown only two great masses of
stone, which lie loose upon the ground; one on the top of a hill,
and the other at a small distance from the bottom.
They certainly
were never put into their present places by human strength or
skill; and though an earthquake might have broken off the lower
stone, and rolled it into the valley, no account can be given of
the other, which lies on the hill, unless, which I forgot to
examine, there be still near it some higher rock, from which it
might be torn. All nations have a tradition, that their earliest
ancestors were giants, and these stones are said to have been
thrown up and down by a giant and his mistress. There are so many
more important things, of which human knowledge can give no
account, that it may be forgiven us, if we speculate no longer on
two stones in Col.
This Island is very populous. About nine-and-twenty years ago, the
fencible men of Col were reckoned one hundred and forty, which is
the sixth of eight hundred and forty; and probably some contrived
to be left out of the list. The Minister told us, that a few years
ago the inhabitants were eight hundred, between the ages of seven
and of seventy.
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