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teen elephants’ tusks, a large quantity of cedar, four cannons, 
the remains of a number of swords, muskets, and chains, a 
number of small shells, some coral, a piece of metal, nearly 
in the shape of a horse-shoe, which, at the time, we supposed 
to be the handle of a trunk, and several pieces of a heavy me- 
tallic substance. 
‘* Sir Charles Giesecke stated this substance to be a kind of 
iron dross, probably of voleanic production, which is abundant 
on the coast of Guinea, and the shells have been classified as of 
that description which the inhabitants there use for money.” 
Professor Graves exhibited specimens of the shells, coral, 
é&c.; and mentioned that the piece of metal, supposed to have 
been the handle ofa trunk, was one of the manille, or bracelets, 
used to this day for the purpose of barter by merchants trading 
on the coast of Africa, and identical in shape with the massive 
gold ornaments frequently found in Ireland. 
Professor Graves also read the following memorandum, 
by Mr. Hamilton, relative to the discovery of what is termed 
by the country people ‘‘a North House,” in the demesne of 
Hampton, and the opening of a tumulus near Knockingen : 
**In the month of September, 1840, my brother-in-law, 
Mr. Rowland Burdon, of Castle Eden, in the county of Dur- 
ham, being on a visit at Hampton Hall, it occurred to me 
one morning to ask him to examine two hillocks near Barna- 
_ geera, in this neighbourhood, in order to ascertain whether 
they were artificial mounds, or whether they were some of 
those natural heaps of gravel called Eskers, which are found 
so frequently across Ireland. 
‘¢ Mr. Burdon had satisfied himself that the first which he 
examined was natural, when his attention was attracted by a 
large stone in the face of a ditch, which had been made re- 
cently, traversing the hillock; he found it to be a flag, and, 
when pulled down, it proved the head-stone of a rude stone 
coffin, with a skeleton encased. ‘There was no weapon or 
coin, or anything to indicate the date or circumstances of the 
