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amongst some town tokens, &c., and sent them to him, and 

 neither saw him nor heard of the coins for two or three months, 

 when he informed me they were Etruscan, and pointed out to 

 me the plates of them in your work. 



" I felt that you would be pleased to see them, and the 

 first opportunity I had of mentioning the circumstance was at 

 my own house, where, before dinner, I showed them to you, 

 the Rev. Mr. Edgeworth, and Dr. Henry, President of the 

 Belfast College, &c. They never were seen by any other 

 person, nor were they ever out of my possession from the time 

 I received thera until I sent them to the Academy, in conse- 

 quence of a note from Mr. Clibborn to me; and to Dr. Petrie 

 I stated the particulars as I mentioned them to you. 



"The only other things I got, when I subsequently made 

 inquiries to observe where the coins were found, were some 

 of what they termed Danish pipes, acknowledged to be found 

 in digging the foundations of the warehouse attached to the 

 house, and which foundations they were compelled to sink 

 very deep, and ultimately to complete by driving piles into 

 the soft soil, — evidently part of the river bank. 



" I never attend evening meetings, or, assuredly, I would 



attend the Royal Irish Academy. If I ever supposed that we 



could procure positive evidence that these coins were dug up 



from a considerable depth, the fact could not be used in support 



of any theory, e.xcept in connexion with other facts. I was 



interested by the extraordinary fact that they were chiefly 



coins figured in Etruria Celtica, and this rendered me desirous 



that you should see them. 



" Believe me, my dear Sir William, 



" Very truly your's, 



" Ch.\rles Haliday. 

 " Sir W. Betham, 



Mr. George Yeates communicated the following notice of 

 a Meteor : 



