4 8a OF THE MURRAY FIRTH. 



appear to be (houting for the b.mle. Tin- import 

 of the attitudes in the third divifion very dubious, 

 their expriViori indefinite. 



"The figur !i form a ic]u;irr in the middle 



of the column, are pretty complex, but dillindt; 

 four fcr with their halberts, guard a company, 



under which are placed fevcral hu ,ids, which 



have belonged to the dead bodies piled up ar the 

 left of the divifion : one appears in the character of 

 viitioner levering the head from another body ; 

 behind him are t : umpeters founding tL 



trumpets ; and before him two pair of combatants 



ing with fword and target. 



" A troop of horfe next appears, put to flight by 

 infantry, whofe rirft line have bows and arrows ; the 

 three following, fwords and targets. In the lower- 

 mod divifion now vifible, the hories kern to be 

 feized by the victorious party, their riders bel, 

 and the head of their chief hung in chains, or pla 

 in a frame ; the others being thrown together befide 

 the dead bodies, under an arched co\ 



" The greateft part of the other fide of the obelifk, 

 occupied by a fumptuous crofs, is covered over with 

 an uniform figure, elaborately railed, and interwo- 

 ven with great mathematical exaclnefs ; of this, on 

 account of its fingularity, there is given a reprefen- 

 tation at the foot of the column. Under the crofs 

 are two auguft perfonages, with fome attendants, 

 much obliterated, but evidently in an attitude of 

 reconciliation; and if the monument was erected 

 in v of the peace concluded between Malcolm 



and Canute, * upon the final retreat of the Danes, 

 thefe large figures may nt the reconciled 



monarchs." 



<k On the edge below the fretwork, are fome rows 

 of figures joined hand-in-hand, which may alfo im- 



* Malcolm II. nd. \vhobcgan his reign in 1004* 



and Canute the L ,.nd. 



ply 



