a number of large stones, set in a kind of square figure near St Clare in Cornwall, so called from an odd opinion held by the common people, that they are so many men petrified, or changed into stones, for profaning the sabbath-day by hurling the ball, an exercise for which the people of that country have been always famous.

The hurlers are oblong, rude, and unhewed. Many authors suppose them to have been trophies erected in memory of some battle: others take them for boundaries to distinguish lands. Lastly, others, with more probability, hold them to have been sepulchral monuments.