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Ame or fimilar modes of interment, it is almofl impoffible to 

 aflertain the date of any particular one. There are a number of 

 ancient fepulchral monuments ftill remaining in Ireland, which 

 are certainly anterior to Chiiftianity in this ifland, whilft there 

 are others of the fame fpecies which fliew evident marks of 

 being ereded fubfequent to that period, and fome perhaps as late 

 as the tenth or eleventh centU|y. 



If you think .the above merits the attention of the Royal Irifh 

 Acadeiny, you will do me the honour to lay it before that 

 learned body. 



I am, 



SIR, 



Your's, &c. 



W. B E A U F O R D. 



Ab)'^ Sept. 2, 1788. 



(T) 



