176 Mr. Kendal’s account of the Dighton rock. 
haps elucidate each other. _ It would at least discover to us, whether 
they are or are not the works of the same people, scattered over a wide 
extent of country... The painted rocks of the north are also objects 
of interest. A people may change, according to circumstances, the 
materials they employ, and yet retain their style. We ought to know 
the style of these painted inscriptions.. Do they contain rude draw- 
ings of natural objects, or of conventional signs, or of technical and 
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_- My own wish and design is to visit al the sealer olay This 
I may never be able to accomplish ; but I presume to urge you to 
lose no opportunity of procuring information and nee of aad 
contents. ge 
The li ‘itself exhibits ana aenew’: mobeckee “series of coincidences 
rock stands cee side ash river, and below high water mark; and 
nearly all the remaining nine are described, as likewise seated’on a riv= 
er. This may be Seine to the predilection of the savages, in com 
mon with all men, for the banks of rivers; it may be owing to the 
open and conspicuous situation of the rocks so placed ; but it may al 
so be ong the nature and purpose of the sculptures, which may 
have re } ice to something nantical. 
But farther coincidences present themselves between the seal 
rocks on Taunton river and on the Ohio. Those on the 0- 
‘thio’ are said” to be on the southeast side of the stream, and this. is 
the situation of that on Taunton river. The latter fronts the north 
west ; and so, in all probability, do those on the Ohio. —— ian 
the rocks on the Ohio are said to be close to the river, and somet 
entirely covered, and that the rock i in ‘Taunton river is bees every 
‘tide. 
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