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286 323 required the united exertions & patience of a number of persons to convey a single one to its place in the pile: and to have compleated the whole of these monuments at least one thousand men & must have been employed twelve months. The piles are thrown up in loose array, indicating no specimens of art or of mechanic skill. All the rocks retain their native appearance, so far as any observation made enabled the beholder to discover. unclear Such were the monuments used in ancient times, by the people of Asia, to commemorate important events. Such monuments were used as well by the lettered Israelites when they passed the Jordan, & in similar occasions as by unlettered nations. Deut: ch: 27. v. 2, 4. And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over JOrdan unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones & plaster them with plaster: -- Therefore it shall be, when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day in Net Ebal., & thou shalt plaster them with plaster (No tool on them 5) --- Joshua, Ch 4. v. 3, 4, 5,6, 7, 8, 9. 10. Take you 12 men out of the people, out of every tribe, a man. And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where