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it was the written ftone that was fought ? and fhewed it to him with-. 

 out hefitation, adding, however, at the fame time, that he did not 

 believe the marks reprefented letters. On this Dr. Browne took' 

 the opinion of his friend in confirmation of his own, and they 

 both agreed, without the fmalleft doubt, that the charaders or 

 lines .-^were artificial, and indented by fome ftiarp inflrument. 

 He then with a rule and pair of compaffes took a copy of them, 

 with» which he does not trouble the Academy, as he has fince 

 feen a more accurate one taken by the Rev. Mr. Young. In 

 going round the hill marks were perceived of what appeared 

 the mouth or entrance of a cave, of which they endeavoured 

 to clear the entrance, but found it much beyond their ability ; 

 yet they obferved enough to imprefs them with a ftrong per- 

 fuafion, that the hillock is excavated, the entrance being very 

 like that at New Grange. Another refemblance is in the fur- 

 rounding circle of upright ftones ; which, (together with the want 

 of a ditch or fofs,) always dillinguhhes fuch tumuli, though they 

 are by Dr. T. Molyneux, called Danifh mounts, from the forts and 

 mounts ufually called raths*, which word alfo, as he conceives, 

 means a place of judgment. On their return to the written ftone, 

 by taking up the earth, they difcovered more indented lines towards 

 the bottom of its interior face, longer than any they hj.d feen ; 

 but during their abfsnce, the peafant, had, ftolcn their ruler, 



which 



* It is remarkable that Rath, in the German language, fignifies counfel or advice, 

 and Der Rath, a judgment feat, or fenate or council. 



