Pictured Rocks | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 15.

Pictured Rocks.

A MORGANTOWN, W. Va., letter says: "The famous pictured rocks on the Evansville pike, about four miles from this place, have been a source of wonder and speculation for more than half a century, and have attracted much attention among the learned men of this country and Europe. The cliff upon which these drawings exist is of considerable size and within a short distance of those above mentioned. The rock is a white sandstone, which wears little from the exposure to the weather, and upon its smooth surface are delineated the outlines of at least fifty species of birds, reptiles, and fish, embracing in the number panthers, deer, buffalo, otters, beavers, wildcats, foxes, wolves, raccoons, opossums, bears, elk, crows, eagles, turkeys, eels, various sorts of fish, large and small, snakes, etc. In the midst of this silent menagerie of specimens of the animal kingdom is the full-length outline of a female form, beautiful and perfect in every respect. Interspersed among the drawings of animals, etc., are imitations of the foot-prints of each sort, the whole space occupied being one hundred and fifty feet long by fifty feet wide. To what race the artist belonged, or what his purpose was in making these rude portraits, must ever remain a mystery, but the work was evidently done ages ago."—Baltimore Sun.