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compiled with any view of submitting it to public 
inspection. I am, Sir, your obliged humble servant. 
_Lincoln's‘Inn Fields, 
London, t (Signed) § W.‘BiacksTone. 
March 16. 1778. 
ON STONE COFFINS. 
Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 
Iw your Bee for February rsth is.an account of an old 
‘stone coffin or &zstbean, found in the parish of Kirkurd. 
The flint fhaped like a halbert, is that ancient weapon 
called astone ce/t ; for some account of these wea- 
pons, (vide Barlase history-of Cornwall, the Archilo- 
gia, ce.) The one of the circular form, and the cy- 
lindrical one, were for similar purposes. The neatly 
carved ring, was a druidical amulet, often purchased 
vat a great price, by warriors from the druids ; its -vir- 
tue was similar, though of lefs efficacy than the angui- 
num. Stone celts, anguinum, adder, and coal black 
-amulets, I have often known found in old sepulchral 
tumuli, and they denoted the person interred to have 
been a person of rank and estimation. 
DETACHED OBSERVATIONS. 
Genus, though, by its splendid appearance, it gene- 
rally attracts the admiration of mankind, is seldom 
beneficial either to its pofsefsor or the world in gene- 
«al. A man of genius rarely pafses his time in the 
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