Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — The Largest Hooking Stone. [ARTICLE]

The Largest Hooking Stone.

Buenos Ayres appears to have the largest “rocking stone” on record. It is situated on the slope of the mountain of Tandil, In the southern part of the province, and measures ninety feet long by eighteen feet broad, and twenty-four feet high. Its bulk is 5,000 cubic feet, and it weighs at least twenty-five tons. Nevertheless, it Is so touchily poised that a sfngle person can set it rocking. When the wind blows from the southeast the stone which is pyramidal Jn fornr, sways to and fro on its foundation like tba branches of a tree.