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Some ACCOUNT of the VICARS CAIRN, in the County of 

 ARMAGH ; communicated to the COMMITTEE of ANTI- 

 QUITIES in two LETTERS, one from Dr. BROWNE, 

 Senior Fellow of Trinity College , Dublin; the other from the 

 Rev. JOHN YOUNG, Curate of MULLABRACK. 



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'R. BROWNE, in his letter, dated the 19th day of December, r^^j^ p^^^ 

 1799, fays. That notwithftanding all that has been written, (by "' '799" 

 very learned men,) of the Ogham charader, and fome modern tef- 

 timonies refpeding its exiftence, he was extremely incredulous as 

 to any monuments being adually extant on which it could be 

 found, and difpofed to think that literary enthufiafm had mif- 

 taken natural furrows on the ftone for engraved charaders. 

 But that having fatisfied himfelf that he was in error, he thought 

 it a duty to the Academy, to mention a monument of the kind 

 which had come under his obfervation. Being at Armagh in the 



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