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quity of the linen manufacture in this kingdom ; his 

 words are, " Irifh writers minutely defcribe the ancient 

 drefs of their country, the veft, the trowfe, the mantle, 

 the enormous linen flieves dyed with faffron," &c. And 

 in a picture of the famous Earl of Tyrone, drawn in 

 Spain after his banifhment, which picture is in the pof- 

 feifion of the Earl of Leicefter, one of his galloglafTes 

 is reprefented as attending on him, exactly in the drefs 

 above mentioned. 



SECT. 8. Some Notice refpeEting the natural Hiftory t 

 ancient as well as modern^ of this County. 



Foffil Horns. The author of the Hiftory of the 

 County of Down, who has furnifhed fo much valuable 

 information, has wholly omitted thofe gigantic horns 

 and bones of the deer kind, which are found in this 

 as well as in other counties of Ireland, generally in 

 marie pits. It has been the opinion of many naturalifts, 

 that no fpecies of animal is fo utterly extinct as to be 

 entirely loft to the world ; yet I believe it may be 

 aflerted, that there is an example in Ireland, which 

 forms an exception to this opinion ; for there is not in 

 any part of the known world a fpecies of the deer 

 kind, capable of fupporting horns equal in magnitude 

 to thofe fo frequently met with in many parts of this 

 ifland ; nor is there amongft us the leafl record, nor 



any 



