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ceived it about 11 o’clock. It continued unchanged for about 
an hour.” The phenomenon was seen, under a much more 
complex form, by Mr. Lowe, at Lenton, Nottinghamshire (see 
Phil. Mag., Nov. 1844), and the fact indicates the very wide 
outspread of the high cirrus and cirro-stratus cloud, by the 
frozen particles of which it is produced. The existence of this 
cloud in the neighbourhood of the moon is also recorded in 
the Day-book of the Dublin Magnetical Observatory, at 10 
p. M. of the same night. It would be interesting, in this point 
of view, to multiply the records of such phenomena, so as to 
be able to trace the extent and limits of the cloud in question. 
I find, in the Philosophical Transactions, that a remarkable 
halo surrounding the sun, accompanied with parhelia, was seen 
on the same day (Oct. 20, 1747), at Paris and Berlin; but 
the evidence derivable from such a fact is incomplete, in the 
absence of any account from intermediate stations. 
Rev. Thomas Porter, D. D., presented an ancient wooden 
table and dish, and communicated the following notice: 
The wooden table and dish to which this notice relates, 
were dug up in a peat moss, or turf-bog, near the road from 
Donaghey, in the townland of Killygarvan, parish of Desert- ~ 
creight, or Dysertcreaght, County of Tyrone.—( Ordnance 
_ Survey, Sheet 38.) They were found four or five feet below 
the surface. With the dish there was a quantity of hazel 
nuts. Each article was cut out of a solid piece of wood, ap- 
parently fir. The table is of an oblong shape, with the ends 
curved inwards towards the centre. 
The four short legs, about six inches high, are in the form 
of truncated cones, and about four inches thick. They are con- 
nected at their bases, except on one side, by a low rim, about 
one inch high, in the longest side of which are two holes, 
capable of admitting a cord or thong. 
The dish was a long oval, four or five inches deep, clum- 
