on Stone Croffes. §il 
friends; but the flighteft obferver can. hardly 
fuppofe, that what is reprefented in the one ever 
exifted in the other. Mr. Pennant fays, ‘‘ How 
this great variation in the drawings of the fame 
columns happens, is not eafy to fay ; for it does 
not appear that there ever were any other in the 
place. Time has obliterated the figures of the 
animals; but whether any workman has chifel- 
ed the whole fhafts of the pillars to their prefent 
form, is, I think, fcarcely to be conje@ured 
they bear all the appearance of antiquity.” He 
faysagain, he has his ‘‘ doubts about the entire 
fidelity of the old drawing, which was done 
about the year 1690.” I tie there is little 
doubt of its being a forgery,. when compared 
with the monument. 
Another writer reprefents thefe pillars under 
the character of Boar-{pears, {uppofing they 
ftood for the memorial of fome ‘ancient Nim- 
rod, famous i in the chace; and the four flat-fide 
ftones, remaining upon their edges, betwixt 
them, to be the worn-out fhapes of boars, or 
bears, before the Chriftian era. The fat feems 
to me to be this; that it isthe decayed tomb 
of fome now forgotten Cumberland or Weft- 
morland Nobleman, with a crofs at the head, 
and another at the feet, the fhafts of which 
only are remaining; and that the four ftones 
betwixt them are the remains of the tomb. 
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