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sunk or cut square; they are deeply indented in the mid- 
dle, and decrease in depth to the surface; at the ends they 
appear, therefore, like marks or scratches made with a nail or 
some pointed instrument, when the rock was in a soft state; 
for instance, like a gash made in the dough of a loaf, and 
when baked, this gash would become an angular furrow. 
* The people of the neighbourhood do not speak Irish, 
and that renders it difficult to obtain from them any thing 
like satisfactory evidence upon the subject, but M‘Cann says 
that many people have come (even from England) to exa- 
mine this rock: he also recollects a preacher, named M‘Quig, 
who examined it between twenty and thirty years ago, and 
who said he could understand parts of it, and that an account 
of it would be found in O’Halloran’s History. He also says 
that it is mentioned in a book published about seven years 
ago—a book about which there were many law-suits. (This 
must be Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary.)* 
** The people have a saying, that great troubles are to 
come, and that the finishing battle is to be fought in the ad- 
joining valley, and the ratification or settlement will be signed 
upon this rock.” 
DONATIONS. 
Two ancient Iron Swords and a Spear Head, found near 
Kilmainham, Presented by the Directors of the Great 
Southern and Western Railroad. 
Rubbings from an inscribed Stone, with Characters, sup- 
posed to have been Ogham, at Drumlish, near Granard. 
[Engraved to accompany the foregoing description.] Also a 
Lithograph of a ruined Temple in Malia. Presented by 
Colonel H. D. Jones, C, E. 
* It is not mentioned under Drumlish, in Lewis's Typogr. Dictionary, 
