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will be perceived, if the ordinary rules of criticism may take their 
place, in the trivial appearance and humble situation of the animal, 
which it is attempted to make the hero of the piece ; a station, which 
it might be conjectured belongs to the bust on the left. Of the ani- 
mal I shall take this occasion to remark, with a view both to investi- 
gation and to the merit of the artist, that its character is strongly, and it 
may be presumed faithfully marked. Its body is crossed, in nearly equal 
divisions, with bars or stripes. It is spotted. Its head is long and deli- 
cate. It wears horns. Its feet are paws.—Already we see reason to 
suspect, that this is a creature of fancy, made up of the members of 
different animals ; and this must assuredly be the case, if the line above 
its back, and which is wanting in all the previous draughts, forms, as 
it strikes the eye, the wing of an insect. 
A second subject of inquiry is the possibility of other written 
sculptured rocks, in the neighbourhood of that, which is known. 
Something of the sort is to be seen, as has been intimated, within the 
adjoining township of Tiverton ; but near the writing-rock there is 
none. I found several persons, who had heard, that a little to the 
south and further out in the stream a rock, being rarely visible, con- 
tained a fuller inscription than the writing-rock. All persons agreed 
in naming, as the author of this account, a Mr. Perry, who lives in 
Dighton, at an advanced age, and who has, for fifty years, visited all 
the rocks in the stream in search of oysters, the shells of which he 
sells to the kilns at Taunton. Upon inquiry of Mr. Perry, not only 
he had never seen such.a rock, but, on the score of his experience, 
he ventured to affirm, that no such rock was to be found. It turned 
t, that no sculptured rock has been: discovered; if we except a 
Slab, which lies to the southeast of the former, within the distance of 
twenty feet. Onan upper corner of this isa figure, — a 
“ross, or the letter X, and one or two others. 
