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at prefent recollect, who has taken notice of it, 
and he does it very flightly. 
All tradition refpecting it is loft; fo that the 
date of its antiquity can be conjectured only by 
comparing it with thofe publifhed in the before- 
mentioned works. It is a ftone about fourteen 
feet in height, with a pedeftal, or focket, into 
which it is funk, rudely hewn into two fteps. 
At the bottom where it rifes from the pedeftal, 
it is two feet in breadth, tapering at the top to 
twelve inches. ‘The fides or edges at the bottom 
are about fix inches, tapering at the top to four. 
The one fide has five diftin® co-partments, befides 
a {pace at the top, wholiy defaced. ‘The oppofite 
fide appears to confift of two co-partments, and 
is much more defaced than the other. The fides 
or edges are carved in an elegant kind of chain 
pattern. Upon the two fides are figures of animals, 
the bodies of which are formed into unnatural and 
grotefque fhapes, but the annexed drawing will 
convey a better idea of this Monument than it is 
poffible to defcribe in words. 
A gentleman from Rofs-fhire informed me, that in 
the ifland of Lewis, there ftill ftands a very entire 
and highly ornamented Stone pillar, not much in- 
ferior to the one near Horres, either in point of 
fize or carving. The remarkable circumftance. 
attending this Obelifk is, that it ftands on a {mall 
hill in the midft of an almoft inacceffible bog, 
fome miles from the fea. It is the general opi- 
nion. 
