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serves as a head-stone to the grave of the rebels who fell here 
in 1798, is the so celebrated Lia Fail, or coronation stone of 
the Irish kings, which has been generally supposed to have 
been carried into Scotland by the Dalriadic Colony in 503, 
and thence to have been taken by Edward the First into 
England, where a stone alleged to be the same is, it is well 
known, still shown under the coronation chair in West- 
minster Abbey. 
This paper proves, in a very striking manner, the value 
and importance of the great national work to which it be- 
longs; as, previously to the Survey, no accurate plan or de- 
scription of the remarkable ruins of this remotely ancient seat 
of the Irish monarchs had ever been attempted, nor any cri- 
tical examination instituted with a view to the elucidation 
of those Irish MS. records which bear upon the subject. 
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Saccas, chef d'une des plus célébres Ecoles Philosophiques 
ad Alexandrie. Par L. J. Dehant. Presented by the Royal 
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Memoire sur les propriétes et l Analyse de la Phloridzine. 
Par L. de Koninck. Presented by the Royal Academy of 
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de Bruxelles, for the year 1836. (Nos, 1 to 12.) Presented by 
the same. 
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