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Excerpt from A Catalogue Raisonne of the British Museum Collection of Rubbings From Ancient Sculptured Stones: A Chapter of Scotland's History as It Is Written on Its Rocks and Stones as 'With a Pen of Iron on the Rock for Ever, ' Also of Who It Was That Did This Writing, and of Who It Was That Undid It Having in 1895 presented to the British Museum upwards of three hundred sheets of rubbings from the sculptured stones of Scotland, I now, at the expressed desire of some of the officials of that Institution, and of many others interested in the subject, attempt to give some information about them both as individual stones and as a series of illustrative examples. As regards the manner of the rubbings, I may say that all of them are my own unassisted work. The method employed also is one which I discovered for myself, after trying and being disappointed in the results of other methods. When first determining to attempt to take good rubbings from stones, which were often in a worn condition, and also difficult to be reached, and trying to learn what had been already done by others, I bethought me of the Edinburgh Antiquarian Society as the most likely source of information, and accordingly applied to the official in charge of the few sculptured stones of the Antiquarian Museum in the Scottish metropolis for some instruction in the art of taking impressions of stone on paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.