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SECT. 4. Military Antiquities. 



UNLESS we include in this clafs the different 

 Strengths, which are compofed of earth thrown up in 

 various forms, and a few warlike inftruments of an- 

 cient fafhion, that have been found at feveral times and 

 places, we fhall find that there is nothing, which can 

 with propriety be referred to the above-mentioned de- 

 nomination, that is not of undoubted Englifti origin ; 

 and that all the caftles, creeled at different periods, were 

 conflructed by Englifh artifts, fo that they are in no- 

 thing different from thofe, which were built at the fame 

 times in England. The continual change of habitation, 

 and the unfettled flate of property amongft the Irifh, 

 the confequence of their laws and regulations refpecV 

 ing inheritance, prevented that attention to places of 

 permanent refidence, which we find to have been paid 

 by other nations not in a higher degree of civilization j 

 for nothing could be more natural than their negligence 

 in the article of improvements, which muft have been 

 attended with trouble and expenfe, when they had al- 

 mofl a certainty that they fhould not defcend to their 

 heirs. But after Ireland was conquered by the Englifh, 

 and the lands were reftored to any of the original pro- 

 prietors to hold from them, they were granted under 



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