Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, fyc. 



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namental crosses, of which innumerable examples may be found in our most 

 ancient manuscripts, and on sepulchral monuments. 



The manner in which these stones lay upon each other will appear from 

 the annexed diagram, as drawn by Monsieur Beranger ; and it should be re- 

 marked, that the angle of the two sculptured faces of these stones is much 

 greater than a right angle, as in those of the arch on the Priest's House already 

 noticed. 



The two illustrations which follow represent the two sides of the stone, 

 described, erroneously as I think, by Archdall, as being apparently the capital 



of a column. I should rather suppose it to be a portion of an architrave ; and 

 the following cut seems to me to represent another stone of the same architrave. 



