170 | Mr, Kendal’s account of the Dighton rock. 
ures, are double rows of pecks, and but slightly hollowed between ; 
while the lines of the upper figures are broader, and more or less reg. 
ularly concave. Among the lower figures however that, which is ap- 
parently a human figure, and is placed under the left shoulder of the 
bust, is peculiarly well defined, has the edges somewhat sharp, the 
lines are sunk below the surface rather in a flat, than a concave form. 
The depth of the lines never exceeds the third of an inch; and the 
breadth varies from half an inch to a whole one. 
.. By what has been said, an account of the style of execution is near- 
ly anticipated. It has appeared, that the lines are cut into the rock, 
or the term of art is, are en creus: ; and that they are hollowed, not in 
the triangular form, making two sides of a prism, such as lines are pro- 
duced by the chissel ; but generally in that of the segment of a cylin- 
der. To these particulars it should be added, that the figures are rep- 
resented by mere outlines, and consequently in the simplest mode of 
Having glanced at the degree of excellence, and at the mode and 
style of the execution or sculpture, I come to the design or plan of the 
drawing ; to its degree of excellence, and to its style or character. 
With respect to the design or plan, I have two observations to of- 
fer. The execution or sculpture I have represented as nothing re- 
markable ; but I must subjoin, that the design is intricate or artificial 
in the extreme. This will probably be confessed by those, who iné 
spect the copy ; and it is still more undeniable, when the rock itself 
isunder the eye. The figure, formed of so many triangles, which is 
at the top and nearly in the centre of the inscription, goes far, I think, 
in bearing out my assertion ; it has a character eminently peculiar, 
and strongly marked. We cannot but fix our attention on the boldness 
as well as singularity, with which the artist, after intending through the 
che part of the figure a correspondence of parts, abruptly quits in 
