Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1869 — Traveling Stones. [ARTICLE]

Traveling Stones.

Tiuit have walking stones in Australia, and as wc are Informed they have traveling stones in Nevada. Here is * description : “ They are almost round, the' majority of them as largu »s a walnut, and of an irony nature. When distributed about upon the floor, table, or any other level surface, within two or three feet of each other, they immediately begin traveling toward a common canter, and there huddle up in a bunch like a. lot of eggs in a nest.' A single stone, romdvOd to the distance of three and a half tcct r upon being released, at once started off with wonderful and somcwltat /□Jmcal l celerity to join its fellows: Taker! away four or five feet it remained motionless. They arc found in a region that, comparatively level, is nothing but barren rock. Scattered over this liarren region are little itasins from a few feet to a rod in diameter, .and it is in the bottom of these that the rolling stones arc found. They are from the size of a pea to five or six- inches in diameter. The cause of tlirae stones rolling together is doubtless id >bdi found in the material of which they are composed, which apptork to be loadstone o¥ magnetic iron ore.”. ,