Py aay 
the oldeft geographers extant, who have treated on this country, 
fhould be thought to merit the attention of the Royal Irith 
Academy, you will do me the honour to lay them before that 
learned body, 
Tae Irifh names which I have collated with thofe of 
Ptolemy, are either taken from Irifh writers, or from the 
voice of tradition. I have alfo added two maps, one drawn 
by Prolemy’s tables on the nautical projection; the other 
according to the moderns, on the fame projection; and the names 
taken either from Irifh authors, or from the names of places 
ftill remaining. In thefe maps Ptolemy’s names are given in the 
original language, but in modern characters, by which means, 
may be feen more eafily by infpection, to what degree of ac- 
curacy that author attained. 
Durine this inveftigation, I have alfo mentioned the opinion 
of the learned refpecting the origin of the tribes, but have only 
{tated them as opinions and conjectures. To confute or fup- 
port them would render this letter much too long ; I fhall there- 
fore conclude with affuring you, that 
I am, Sir, 
Your faithful, much obliged, 
And moft obedient, humble fervant, 
W. BEAUFORD. 
Athy, 
Jan. 2, 1790, 
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