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proof of the small encouragement both arts and artists have hitherto received 

 in Ireland. Our medallists, while labouring under great discouragements, have 

 shown themselves capable of performances worthy a place in any cabinet ; what 

 might we not then expect if the liberal, the enlightened, the classical were once 

 aroused to patronize an art which formed the boast of Ancient Greece and Rome 

 in the days of their greatest power and highest civilization. 



P. S. — It was my intention to have accompanied the preceding Memoir with 

 an Appendix, giving a particular description of many other medals connected 

 with Ireland, as well as those which have been noticed already, together with 

 engravings of the most rare and interesting. But since I have more particularly 

 directed my attention to the subject, my researches have led to the discovery of 

 so many medals, of the existence of which I was before ignorant, already amount- 

 ing in all to more than two hundred, that I shall for the present defer the pub- 

 lication of the appendix and engravings till I am enabled to present it to the 

 Academy in a form as complete as I would wish, and as the subject deserves. 



