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XXVIII. ACCOUNT 
OF THE WRITING-ROCK IN TAUNTON RIVER ; 
#s a letter to the Hon. John Davis, Esq. Recording Secretary of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
By Mr. E. A. KENDAL. 
—at DS a — 
LTallowell, oe. 29, 1807, 
- DEAR SIR, + 
I LEAVE in this neighbourhood according to promise, a copy 
of my transcript of the ovine in Taunton river. Mr. Vaug- 
han will obligingly forward this letter, and the inscription will be de- 
livered to you through the care of Mrs. Gardiner. 
You are already aware, that I indulged, in several successive vis- 
its, durmg my stay at Dighton, my curiosity concerning this singu- 
lar monument; a. curiosity. strongly excited by your communication 
of facts, papers, and raught entrant 
have seen, heard, and Hhonpht.. : 
The writing-rock is a block of gneiss, a eit of. Pi gra- 
nite, lying on Asonet neck, on the eastern side of Taunton river on 
the land of a Mr. Deane, within the township of Berkeley, county of 
Bristol, and state of Massachusetts. Its foot, in front, is about ten or 
twelve feet from low water mark, and its top is covered, at high wa- 
ter, toa height of two or three feet, or more. * Its face eleven 
feet seveit inches at the base, five feet one inch in its extreme height, 
and is an inclined plane, having an inclination of about sixty degrees. 
The two ends correspond, or nearly correspond with the face ; so as. 
ae on three sides of the rock, the es Bee The 
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