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 350 CROMLECH AT DREWSTEIGNTON, DEVON. clay aiul tiu streaming were made. With two exceptions only, I have not been able to find any persons acquainted Avith these remains. My friend, ^Ir. Samuel Hunt, of Cliag- furd, M.R.C.8., informs me that he remembers the " Via Sacra," or stone avenue, leading to the Cromlech, and that about the year 1832 complaints were made, because stones liad been removed for building purposes. Mrs. Ponsfoi'd, tbe widow of the late rector, also tells me that she remembers being shown the "Via Sacra" certainly as late as 1848, but does not remember the circles. The " Via Sacra " is the avenue in the plan leading to the Cromlech. A few years since, by permission of the tenant, a quantity of stones were taken Irom the eastern field to build a farm-house in the neighbourhood. This probably was the last step in convert- irig the site of these curious remains into a level-surfaced field. As the measures in ]Ir. Grey's survey are given in paces, and the points of the compass only approximately, the plan cannot be regarded as strictly correct ; but I showed it to him when nearly completed, on the 24th May, 1872, an<l lie said that it was right ; since that time my valued friend has died. The lithographs of the Cromlech, Nos. 1, 2, and 3, are fi-om sketches taken with the caiitcra lucida by the author, July 7, 185."); that of the fallen Cromlech, No. 5, from a photograj)ii taken by him February ."i, I 8G2.