Excerpt from On Ancient Pillar Stones and Cairns: Their Antiquity, the Extent of Country Over Which Their Use Extended, and Their Signification, Being an Essay Read at the Liverpool Literary Philosophical SocietyStone pillars are to be met with in Great Britain, from Cornwall on the South to the Orkneys in the North, and they, alone or with stone circles, may be traced from Scotland to the plains of India.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.