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CARIOSITIES.
lie copied the lines, which, on comparison, he found
very different from natural impressions irregularly in-
dented on the other stones, and on some part of this. It
was pointed out to him by a peasant passing by, as cc the
written stone;” but that he did not believe they were
letters; and he, with a friend, copied the lines by rule
and compass: and, going round the hill, they observed
marks of the entrance of a cave, which impressed them
with a strong persuasion that the hillock was excavated,
the entrance being very like that at New Grange. They
observed more indented lines towards the bottom of the
interior face of the written stone by taking up the earth;
but, having lost the ruler, they did not copy them, nor
did they satisfactorily trace any transverse horizontal line
crossing the others. Within seven miles of Dublin, ou-
tlie top of a hillock on the descent of the Dalkey hills,
is a circular range of stones, with a stone- elbow scat in
their centre. Mr. Y. adds, the Wears Cairn has fur-
nished stones to repair the roads. The area is circular,
44 yards diameter. The written stone stands declined in
an angle of 25 degrees from the perpendicular. In 1785
John .WCarrol, proprietor of the ground, opening the
West side for stones, found a wooded door-case,Which. ‘
on being touched, fell to dust, with a wall, East and West,
on each side of it, of hewn stones with cement, which he
followed for ton feet in length, and never opened it after-
wards.
II. An account of some antient Trumpets dug up in a '
bog near Armagh. By Arthur Browne. Four of them
had been dug up at the same time, and nearly in the same
place where tradition settled a great battle and the King
of Lister’s palace; and one being made by an artist
wind-tight, and sounded by a trumpeter of the 2Sd regi-
ment of dragoons, produced a tremendous sound. Dr. B.
supposed it the Diidag or ■ SkcJi trumpet of brass, men-
tioned by Gen. Vallancey.
lie copied the lines, which, on comparison, he found
very different from natural impressions irregularly in-
dented on the other stones, and on some part of this. It
was pointed out to him by a peasant passing by, as cc the
written stone;” but that he did not believe they were
letters; and he, with a friend, copied the lines by rule
and compass: and, going round the hill, they observed
marks of the entrance of a cave, which impressed them
with a strong persuasion that the hillock was excavated,
the entrance being very like that at New Grange. They
observed more indented lines towards the bottom of the
interior face of the written stone by taking up the earth;
but, having lost the ruler, they did not copy them, nor
did they satisfactorily trace any transverse horizontal line
crossing the others. Within seven miles of Dublin, ou-
tlie top of a hillock on the descent of the Dalkey hills,
is a circular range of stones, with a stone- elbow scat in
their centre. Mr. Y. adds, the Wears Cairn has fur-
nished stones to repair the roads. The area is circular,
44 yards diameter. The written stone stands declined in
an angle of 25 degrees from the perpendicular. In 1785
John .WCarrol, proprietor of the ground, opening the
West side for stones, found a wooded door-case,Which. ‘
on being touched, fell to dust, with a wall, East and West,
on each side of it, of hewn stones with cement, which he
followed for ton feet in length, and never opened it after-
wards.
II. An account of some antient Trumpets dug up in a '
bog near Armagh. By Arthur Browne. Four of them
had been dug up at the same time, and nearly in the same
place where tradition settled a great battle and the King
of Lister’s palace; and one being made by an artist
wind-tight, and sounded by a trumpeter of the 2Sd regi-
ment of dragoons, produced a tremendous sound. Dr. B.
supposed it the Diidag or ■ SkcJi trumpet of brass, men-
tioned by Gen. Vallancey.