the crofs rifing into light put an end to the Druid facrifice, yet the farther con' 
templation of the fculptures on the ftone was not without an ample fund of rational 
entertainment. Here conjefture becomes authenticated by unequivocal refertv 
blances, that may be traced between the figures on this ftone and feveral of a cor- 
tefponding age in other countries. 
In fome old paintings, of which reprefentations are given in the CXIX. and 
CXXXVII. plates of the Englifh edition of Montfaucon ' s Antiquities of France, lC 
may be obferved that long robes were early worn by the fathers of the church on 
all folemn occafions : in their proceffions their priefts carried the crofs, crofier^ 
and other enfigns of facred authority, which added to the pomp of their facred deli' 
berations and holy rites. 
The firft badge of their fanftity and humility was the pallium or cloak, the 
plaineft and moft fimple of garments. It was worn throughout the Roman emp^ 
in contradiftinftion to the toga, which was confidered as an airy, gay, and fplendi 
piece of drefs, unfuitable to thofe who placed their glory in preaching the gofpel ' 
the poor. 
This then, as the badge of Chriftian paftors-and the crofiers, as enfigns of th 
delegated power from the apoftles-became ftriking appendages of thole holy & 
who firft announced the evangelical confolations. Thefe diftinguiftnng garbs an 
holy infignia would naturally accompany the promulgation of the gofpel; * . 
wherever the apoftolic fathers proclaimed their mifiion, and the light of life, w 
ftrike the beholders with awe, and be reprefented by artifts with reverence. 
Caledonian fculptors might certainly therefore have had the living figures to cW 
from : though it is highly probable, they would be confirmed in the appropriat ^ 
of thefe to monumental remembrancers of their faith, by feeing them piftu 
devotional books, and confidered as memorials of martyrs, faints, and heroes > e 
as emblematical of thofe folemnicies of religion, which they regarded as the loU 
of their moft lafting confolation. 
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That the human figures on this monument have the above allufion, can rtf* 
no further evidence than a clear infpeftion affords. The embellilhe e P 
alfo in part appears.-The fufpended Ihields and feeptres muft require a difqum 
appropriated to them only. 
