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 CORNWALL peak, Rough Tor, may be made the centre of a single excursion, but the visitor must carefully avoid the treacherous bog that lies between. This bog is not the only danger. The moors are often swept by thick mists. It is safest, unless in brilliant and settled weather, to go in company with a guide. Mr. Baring-Gould tells us how he was himself caught in a bog, and had already sunk to his armpits before he managed with tremendous effort to extricate himself This same bog, during that season, had swallowed six bullocks. The Jamaica Inn, once a solitary refreshment-house, will accom- modate those who wish to pass a night in this deeply interesting region. Especially notable are the beehive-huts, their walls composed of rough unmortared moorstones, varying from 2 to 3 ft. in thickness, while the diameter of the huts is from 6 to 8 ft. The roofs were laid on in kraal fashion, boughs being roughly thatched with straw or bracken. A very fine specimen may be seen at Fernaker, in the hollow between the two hills. On the summit of Brown Willy is a huge unexplored cairn ; the huts will be found lower down. These huts may be compared with those at Bosphren- nis and Chysauster ; they are probably of mucii the same date. The Fernaker circle of up- right stones, the finest of its kind in Cornwall, is of course far older. Two kists were found among the barrows, one large, one small, both empty ; it is supposed they were the resting- place of parent and child. 72