Six were taken in Pownall last year, and two hundred foxes. Sometimes
they appear on the hills, in close proximity to this village.
September 7th.--Mr. Leach and I took a walk by moonlight last evening, on
the road that leads over the mountain. Remote from houses, far up on the
hillside, we found a lime-kiln, burning near the road; and, approaching
it, a watcher started from the ground, where he had been lying at his
length. There are several of these lime-kilns in this vicinity. They
are circular, built with stones, like a round tower, eighteen or twenty
feet high, having a hillock heaped around in a great portion of their
circumference, so that the marble may be brought and thrown in by
cart-loads at the top. At the bottom there is a doorway, large enough to
admit a man in a stooping posture. Thus an edifice of great solidity is
constructed, which will endure for centuries, unless needless pains are
taken to tear it down. There is one on the hillside, close to the
village, wherein weeds grow at the bottom, and grass and shrubs too are
rooted in the interstices of the stones, and its low doorway has a
dungeon-like aspect, and we look down from the top as into a roofless
tower.
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