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wide entrenchment, which I am affured may be followed many- 

 miles further in the fame diredion, and which the neighbouring 

 peafants faid, in anfwer to my enquiries concerning the ufe of 

 it, had been cut by Sir Hugh De Lacy, as he intended to draw 

 the waters of Lough Ennel to Horfeleap, a tradition which is 

 much to my pm-pofe, though a little tindlured with modern 

 ignorance ; for certainly the trench commencing under a fort, 

 and carried on for miles through a very rough hilly country, 

 was not intended for a water courfe, but a boundary. 



I am, 

 S I R, 



Your mofl obedient fervant, 

 J. BROWNRIGG. 

 Dublin, Grafton-ftreet, 

 i6th February, 1788. 



