184 Mr. Kendal’s account of the Dighion rock. 
_ Availing myself of the kindness and the pencils.of Mrs. Gardiner, 
I have made my sketch inoil. It represents the face of the rock, set 
upright and bearing the inscription. The lower corner, on the left, 
being fractured, I have made use of the space, to imtroduce a re- 
duced figure of the whole rock. By this, as I flatter myself, you will 
be still further assisted, in placing before your eyes the real bulk, 
form, condition, and general appearance of this highly interesting 
monument, On the right hand of the rock, and half way up its side, 
I have also shown, in its actual situation, the Brie — just above 
described, 
On casting an eye over my transcript two remarks immediately — 
present themselves to those, who are acquainted with the former 
draughts, and particularly Mr, Winthrop’ s.—The figures are fewer, 
and they are dissimilar. ‘That ‘the figures are fewer is partly true, and 
partly only in appearance. It is in part only in appearance, because — 
upon a ground, representing the face of the rock, they are less obtry- | 
sive on the eye, than when they are drawn in black upon white paper; ze | 
and those, who draw, are aware, that an outline always looks fuller, 
thana finished picture. The peculiar paucity of the figures is howev- a 
er ina great degree real ; arising partly from my inability to discover . 
all, that some gentlemen have seen ; and partly from my willingness : e 
to leave in indistinctness, obscurity, and invisibility, what is indistinct, 
obscure, and almost wholly invisible, on the rock. The figures, 
which are distinct in my transcript, are distinct in the original. - & 
these [have given definite forms ; while in the other instances m7 0! e 
care has been to depict the obscurity of the original. If your te foe 
yourself obliged to approach close to some of my figures, and can at 
last arrive at no certainty as to their outlines, I must beg you to te 
member, that this will always be your situation, when examining t 
tock itself. If, on the other hand, I have sometimes made definite a 
