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wall, and as high as a steeple, it is hard to conceive howthese painters, or other artificers, could come at them tomake those figures, which are mostly in the middle of theflat surface of these rocks. They could not do it in summerby means of ladders, because the river in those places isdeeper than the rocks are high; and in winter the snowwhich lies there above a man’s height, and the terrible frost,would not allow them to climb up and paint them at all.There is, therefore, room to conjecture, they either foundways to let themselves down from above, or climb up frombelow by means of some wedges driven into the rocks.”He afterwards confirms the possibility of this, by alludingto, and citing passages from Le. Croix's Hisloire de TimurBeck, tom. ii. cap. lviii. &c.; and adds, that he himself hadseen many of those wedges.

As we have formerly seen, and just shown, it was thepractice to write upon rocks, &c. which circumstance wehave previously noticed to be mentioned by the author ofthe book of Job; and we have previously recognised thatpassage in Josephus which mentions the pillars of Seth.The mention of these pillars revives in our recollection thoseof Bacchus, Hercules, Osiris , Sesostris, and others, to com-memorate their exploits ; also the famous pillars of MercuryTrismegistus, in hieroglyphics; those mentioned by Por-phyrins in Crete , containing the formula of the service ofCybele ; that mentioned by Demostheues, as standing inhis time, on which the Athenian code of legislation wasengraven ; the famous Sigean stone ; the previously givenParian chronicle; also the famous Rosetta triple inscription,and innumerable other Egyptian records upon similar ma-terials, furnish adequate and incontrovertible proof of thetruth of this assertion. We need not mention the inscriptionin the royal palace of Larins, or of the forty pillars in thePersepolitan character. Likewise the instauce mentionedby Diodorus Siculus , of those paintings on the un-burnt clay, afterwards burnt in enamel : likewise no-ticed by the Indian antiquary. 1 The ancient monumentsof Chinese knowledge, are said to have been engravenupon large stones. The Hebrew commandments werewritten upon marble plates, as we are informed; andit is said Joshua also wrote the other laws upon the samematerial. The names of the twelve tribes were engravenupon precious stones, set in the ephod of the high priest.

1 Vide his Dissertation, on Babylon.

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