'Such is the situation of the circles called the grey wethers, Sittaford Tor, in one of the wildest and most solitary parts of the moor. Each of these consisted originally of twenty-five stones, of which nine remain erect in one, and seven in the other: the rest lie half overgrown with moss and heather. Their height varies from three to five feet, and the diameter of each circle is one hundred and twenty.nIn this gloomy district even at midday, the circle of grey stones has a strange power over the imagination but when twilight is gradually closing, and the only sound that breaks the silence of the hills
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