APPENDIX. 



ANTIQUITIES. 



THE fludy of antiquities being both difficult and 

 delicate, an elaborate difcuffion of that fubjeft cannot 

 be expefted in an undertaking of this kind ; but the 

 Dublin Society having exprefTed their wifh, that men- 

 don fliould be made of fuch ancient monuments as flill 

 exift in this kingdom, in compliance with their defire I 

 fliall take notice of the moft remarkable now in being, 

 which may ferve as a guide to thofe, who having more 

 knowledge in this line than I profefs may be defirous 

 of puming their enquiries to a greater extent. When 

 I confider how many perfons of eminence in the lite- 

 rary world have made this purfuit their particular ob- 

 ject, I might juftly be accufed of prefumption, in at- 

 tempting to fathom a fubjecl: in a great degree new to 

 me, -which has often unfuccefsfully confumed the la- 

 bours of a long life. But to the moft fuperficial ob- 

 ferver it muft be evident, that this country has been 



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