Mr. Kendal’s account of the Dighton rock. 175 
block of gneiss, without the use of iron, or at least of hardened cop 
per. 
Concerning all these points however,-it will be proper for us to sus- 
pend our judgment. We may yet be convinced of what we at present 
cannot understand, the possibility of engraving an inscription like 
the present, with no better tools, than those of stone ; further inquiry 
may satisfy us, that there is nothing on this rock above the contriv- 
ance, or inconsistent with the taste of the present aborigines; and 
facts are not wanting to lead to a suspicion, that the writing-rock is not 
a solitary instance of antique inscription discoverable in America. I have 
read, cither among the papers of the late President Stiles,’of which you 
were so good as to afford me a perusal, or in some other place, of paint. 
ed rocks, among the Indians, known tothe ufr-traders of Canada; and 
I have collected from the MSS. of President Stiles, and other soure- 
es, a list of no less than ten places on. this continent, where sculptured 
rocks are found, or are reported so tobe. The first is the writing- 
rock in Taunton river ; the second.in Tiverton ; and the third in Rut- 
land, all im the state of Massachusetts ;. the fourth isnear Newport in 
Rhode Island; the fifth at Scaticook on the Housatonic in the town- 
ship of Kent, and state of Connecticut ;. the sixth in Brattleborough on 
the Connecticut, in the state of Vermont ; the seventh on a large stra- 
tum of rocks on the southeast side of the Ohio, about two miles be- 
low the mouth of Indian or King’s Creek, and fifty below Pittsburg ; 
the eighth on the Alatamaha in Georgia; the ninth on the Alleghany, 
fifteen miles below Benango, one hundred and ten below Fort Pitt, 
and seventy miles south of Lake Erie; the tenth on the Cumberland, 
near Rock-castle neck. | og 
This list, as I flatter myself, will not be ieee. It is of a 
nature to excite inquiry, and to concentrate the results. A collection: 
of all the sculptures would be highly interesting, and they might per- 
