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from history that the Celts ever sacrificed on such an altar, 

 or even built one ; and it is not probable that Caesar and 

 other writers who treat of the Celts, would have passed over 

 so remarkable a fact, especially as Caesar, enters so minutely 

 into the ceremonies of the Druids and their religious rites. 

 To enter into this part of the subject fully, would occupy 

 more time and space, and interfere with other subjects which 

 are of more pressing interest to me at this time, but I may be 

 allowed just to observe in this place, for the reasons above 

 stated, that I consider all cromlechs as denuded sepulchral 

 chambers, and that they are the works of the Cymbric Belgae. 

 I think the evidence we possess on the subject, all tends to 

 induce that conclusion." 



Sir William Betham read " A Translation of the fifth Eu- 

 gubian Table," as numbered by Dempster. 



He stated that he considered this Table the first in chro- 

 nological order, although numbered the fifth ; for as the writ- 

 ing of the first five Tables was from right to left, so, he con- 

 ceived, the numbering ought to have been the same way. 

 Sir William also stated that as he intended to read transla- 

 tions of all the Tables in succession; he would wish to defer 

 the printing of those he had read on the 22nd of January, 

 until the previous Tables had been laid before the Aca- 

 demy. 



These Tables Sir William considers as narratives of Etrus- 

 co-Phoenician voyages ; and as the account of Hanno's voyage 

 along the west coast of Africa, was placed up in the Temple 

 of Saturn at Carthage, so he conceives were these fixed up 

 in the temple at Eugubium, in accordance with the custom 

 of the Phoenician people. 



The voyage, of which this table is an account, was from 

 Etruria to Carrie^ in the island abounding in cattle, (Britain). 

 It commences with the departure of the expedition, and tells 

 us that proceeding to the Mouth of the Straits, they encoun- 



