Rocking or Logan stone at Drewsteignton in Devon (c.1810)

Rowe, Rev. Samuel. A perambulation of the antient and royal forest of Dartmoor, and the venville precincts, … Plymouth: C. E. Moat; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co.; S. Rowe, 1856. p. 33.LOGAN STONE. The Logan Stone seems to have formed an important and characteristic feature in the mystic apparatus of Druidism, but there are only one or two specimens now known to exist in Devonshire, and even these have almost, if not entirely, lost the quality which originally gave them fame and distinction. The celebrated Drewsteignton Logan Stone might be repeatedly passed by, without exciting more curiosity or attention than any other huge granite mass, standing aloft in the bed of the river. And it is impossible to traverse the moor in any direction without observing many a similar rock which might have been a Logan Stone, or might have been easily made to logg (vibrate)-so fantastical and singular are the positions in which such superincumbent masses are continually found, balanced on another rock below, so nicely as to admit of the immense bulk being moved, by the application of no more forces than the strength of a man's hand. Such curiously adjusted masses seem not to have been unknown to the antients [sic].[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]

Copper l.engr

55x76mm