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sily hollowed out of a piece of a trunk of fir. Its length, 
when found, was exactly the same as the extreme length of 
the table, two feet. Its breadth was about ten inches, and 
just sufficient to cover the extremities of the four legs, but 
not to allow of its lying between them. It has since split 
lengthwise, in such a manner as to alter its proportions mate- 
rially. In the edge of one side, where it has been somewhat 
injured, are the marks of two holes, exactly answering to the 
two in the rim under the table. From those particulars it 
may be inferred that the table was used by persons who sat 
on the ground at their meals; and that the dish, when not in 
use, was attached by a thong to the under surface of the table, 
which might be hung against the wall of the dwelling, or 
slung on the baggage when the owners migrated from place 
to place in the woods. It is not improbable, too, that the 
curved ends of the table may (as has been suggested by an 
observant person) have been of use in transferring meal, when 
ground in a quern or hand-mill, from the table to the dish. 
Possibly, also, the rim on the under surface may have been 
of use in kneading dough for cakes, the table being inverted 
for that purpose. 
The workmanship and appearance of both articles are 
rude in the extreme, and indicate a very low state of civiliza- 
tion in the people who used them. 
Nothing very remarkable has been found in the same bog, 
or in any of the many adjoining ones, except some stags’ 
horns, whieh were dug up in the next little valley, in the 
townland of High Cross, and which are now in the posses- 
sion of John Lindesay, Esq., of Loughry. 
DONATIONS. 
Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles d’ Agricul- 
ture et dIndustrie. Publices par La Sociéte Royale d Agri- 
culture, §c. de Lyon. ‘Tome V. Année 1842. 
