Inscription Translation

Inscriptions by the artist: I am quite fond of fantastic rocks. My friend Dai li shan ren [Wang Li 王禮] is quite fond of my painting, to the same degree as I love rocks. There has long been an understanding between us that we would exchange paintings for rocks [and vice versa]. At the time, I was traveling constantly. This summer, by chance I recalled our previous understanding, realizing that a fantastic rock [that he gave me] had been in my studio for as long as five years. Thereupon I painted this to fulfill my promise. I wrote this colophon and rendered a scene of tall and steep cliffs at the very end of this album of twelve leaves. This is the sixth day of the sixth month, of the year of wushen [1788]. Zhengzhai Min Zhen wrote this.