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128 Account of an Infcrihcd Rod at Dtgbion. 



In tlie courfe of lafl Auguft, upon the invitation of Judge 



Baylies, of Dighton, Went to view tlie rock, andjtake a copy 

 of it. Wc were affifled bv Rev. Mr. Weft, and Col. Edward 



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Pope, both of New Bedford, and Rev. Mr. Smith, of Dight 



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We fpent one day in cleaning the face of the rock, tracing the 

 character, and painting it black, beginning to work when the 



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de had fallen, fo as not to be above our knees, and finifhed 

 lis operation when the water was abotit as deep, upon the 





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flood. The next day, which was the fourteenth of Auguft, 

 the fame company went to the' rock, provided with a large 



ibeet of paper, ofthe whole ftze of the infer iption, and after 

 retracing the chara<5ler with paint, to cure' any vifciditv which 



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and the paint prefently began to appear through it. As foon 

 as the paper was dry enough to he removed, we laid it upon 

 the ftiore and completed the charader with ink. Afterward 

 I brought it Jiome^^-and hangtngliF'np to tKc light, traced the 



inscription with ink upon the other fide of the paper, it hav- 

 ing been reverfed by the manner of copying from the rock. 

 Having thus completed the copy, I had a large pTntagraph 

 made, which would expand thirteen feet, and by this means 



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the firft paint jaa^^+rrTiave contraded from the extreme heat i 



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of the weather, we applied the paper to the face of the rock 



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two of us managing the ends of the flieet, and the remainder \ 

 with towels, which we dipt into the river, prefling the paper 

 upon the rock. This made the paper conform to the furface 



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