Loganstone

Dan Rabin · 04 Mar 2001, 10:37 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Dan Rabin <wolfe-lists at danrabin.com>
Subject: (whorl) Loganstone
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:37:05
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"Loganstone" is the name of the lighter that took Magnesia (Marble)=20
to the Whorl.  I got a little bothered about the name yesterday, so I=20
did a Google search and came up with

<http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-log1.htm>
<http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/monuments.html>.

It's an old English name for a rocking stone, with Druidic/magical=20
associations.  There's a famous one in Cornwall.

The name fits in with the motions attributed to landers, and also=20
fits in with the provenance of the Whorl as an asteriod.
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   -- Dan

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