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Walker's Hlflorical Memoirs of the Irifli Bards, (page rog, 

 Appendix) except in the middle piece, which differs from any 

 I ever heard of, and is I believe an \inique. This tube is 

 23 inches /- long, of one entire piece, and has a loop in the 

 centre to run a cord through. At each end it has four holes, 

 correfponding to foiir in each trumpet, through vrhich two pins 

 or pegs faftened the inflruinent. Both truinpets were fixed on 

 the middle piece like the joints of a German flute, wdien firft 

 found, and very firm with rufl and dirt, but the pins were loft. 

 I fhould imagine tliis tube was only to hang them up by. 

 Dotftor Fifher (a celebrated performer on the violin, and Do(5lor 

 of mufic in the univerfity of Oxford) who faw them with me 

 in Limerick, conje(5lures Fig. I. and II. are frjl and fecond. The 

 mouth or large end of Fig. 11. is 4j inches diameter, being one 

 inch wider than the other. Fig. III. is the Stoc or Stuic, a fort of 

 fpeaking trumpet defcribed by Colonel Vallancey in the Col- 

 le(flanea, No. XIIL page 46, and in Hiftorical Memoirs of Irifli 

 Bards, page 83. The moutK-hole is oval, i| inches long by i^- 

 wide, and was cut acrofs by the turf fpade ; but the other two 

 and middle piece are in fine prefervation. They are all orna- 

 mented with little conical teats or projedlions at each end, as 

 in the drawing, viz. four at the finall and fix at the large ends, 

 and four near each extremity of the middle piece. Fig. I. and 

 Fig. III. have four holes at the wide ends, which feems as if fome 

 other tube was to be faftened occafionally within them, perhaps 

 in the manner of Lord Drogheda's, defcribed by Colonel Val- 

 lancey. It is natural to think there muft have been mouth 

 pieces for Fig. I. and II. but none were found with them, nor 



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