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mittirig dogs, foxes^ or Iheep ; the other large 

 enough to receive men. Neither of thefe ca-^ 

 vities has been thoroughly explored by any one 

 within memory ; a perfon informed me that he 

 had gorte into the larger with a light, but re- 

 turned, after having gone down a floping defcent 

 of about fixty yards: tradition fays, into the other 

 hole once went a dog, in full chace after a fox, 

 but neither of them ever returned. 



To a fuperficial obferver, unacquainted with 

 ancient hiftory, and bufied only with the com- 

 mon occurrences of the prefent day, thefe rude 

 remains may appear to be no more than the 

 fport, or chance of nature, thus left, when the 

 water of the general deluge quitted its earthly 

 feat, and fixed its refidence in its proper bed. 



To guefs at the tranfadtions of remote ages, 

 where we have no written authority, is, it muft be 

 owned, too often fallacious, and at beft very 

 uncertain J and fome, whofe purfuits do not 

 coincide with fuch refearches, may flight thofe 

 attempts, which might lead to a difcovery of 

 actions fo far back as ** twice ten hundred years j" 

 yet where we cannot attain complete knowledge, 

 it is humbly prefumed, a probable conjedure 

 may be admitted. 



Upon this ground of conjecture we may go, 

 and fay, that fituations like thefe, and ftones like 

 thofe we defcribe, have been made ufe of in the 

 iiioft ancient idolatry, and particularly by the 

 Druids of this ifland ; who, as priefts of its firft 



inhabitants, 



