[253] The “Race” is the turbulent sea-area off the Bill of Portland, where contrary tides meet.[290] Pronounce “Loddy.”[457] On a lonely table-land above the Vale of Blackmore, between High-Stoy and Bubb-Down hills, and commanding in clear weather views that extend from the English to the Bristol Channel, stands a pillar, apparently mediÆval, called Cross-and-Hand or Christ-in-Hand. Among other stories of its origin a local tradition preserves the one here given.