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Account of an Infcribed Rock at D'lgbfon, 127 



fmootKed by art. It is on this Me teft feet fix inches long, 

 and four Feet two inches wide, — Jhe height is not fo great, 

 for the plane dechnes about thirty, degrees from the perpen- 

 dicular, fo that the top of the fock is about two feet ivoiw a 



perfon {landing by the bafe of the infcribed fide. The other 

 fides are fliorter, and drawn to a point toward the fhore, and 

 are rough, as li large pieces had been broken off. The rock 

 is of a dull reddifh colour, which is common with the flones 

 in that neighbourhood. Tradition informs us, that in the 

 laft century it flood as much as four rods from the river, but 



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the inhabitants by digging round it, upon the foolifli expeifla- 

 tion of finding money, gave a paffaj^e to the tide. 



"It is agreed, on all hands, that the infcription is 



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cal : but for want of a perfect copy of it no fatisfadory expla- 

 nation has been given. A very imperfecft copy was publifhed 

 early in this century in the philofopliical tranfadions of the 



Royal Society of London. About twenty years ago a much 

 more complete one was taken by the learned Profeflbr Sewall>. 

 anS is depofited in the Mufeum of the Univerfity in Cam- 

 bridge. The lower part of the rock has been for 



coated with 



concealed a coiiBder 



able part of the infcription, and the ihortnefs of the time, 

 which the tide leaves it, makes it impoffible, in the common 

 method of copying, to be perfedlly exad. This will abun- 

 dantly account for any deficiency or imperfedion in the copy 

 taken by Profelfor Sewali, whofe habitual accuracy and atten- 

 tion are well known* 



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