Got a copy here Nigel :-)

I've not read it all yet - several other books above it on the pile at the moment, but a quick perusal shows the process is described across 3 or 4 pages, and seems to involve a sledge, moving upon rollers along a wooden base.

<I>"We may readily imagin that half a score leavers made of long timbers trees applyd all around one of thes stones would raise it so as that they might place rollers underneath it & so either by repeated protrusion or by pulling it with many ropes & hands transport it whether they pleased..."</I>

He goes on to describe a frame of timber, upon which the stone is placed:

<I>"The two outsides of this frame must be formd like the bench of oars in a galley & plyd with leavers in the nature of a galley oars, two or 3 of thes lower works being ready to set one before another, the stone would thus as effectually be carryd by land as the ship by water..."</I>

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