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which happened to be of ivory, and prevented further copy- 

 ing of thefe curious marks. Dr. Browne obferves, that he could 

 not fatisfaflorily trace any tranfverfe horizontal line, crofling the 

 others, fuch as is ufually delineated in the Colledanea and elfe- 

 wherej he thought he could in fome places obferve fuch a line, 

 but could not venture to be pofitive. 



There is, he fays, within feven miles of Dublin, a circular range 

 of ftones, with a ftone elbow-feat inthe middle of them, evidently 

 the place of the judge ; it crowns the top of a hillock, and 

 nothing can more evidently fpeak its purpofe than its appear- 

 ance. It is on the defcent of the Dalkey hills, yet though fo 

 near, little known and feldom vifited. The inhabitants of Ire- 

 land, he obferves, feem in general not fufficiently attentive to 

 the antiquities fo thickly diffufed through the kingdom. 



Mr. young, in his account, dated Odober 14th 1799, fays, 

 The immenfe heap offtones, called the Vicars Cairn, lies to the 

 fouth-eaft, and at the diftance of four miles from Armagh, in the 

 parifh of Mullabrack, feems to be much diminished from its ori- 

 ginal fize. During the memory of the oldeft men in the neigh- 

 bourhood, it has been ufed as the public quarry for the repair of 

 roads ; yet whatever the objed of the firft builders was, feems 



now 



