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the bottom; this they take out with great tongs, and put under 
heavy hammers, played with water, which at the lame time beat 
off, or rather fqueeze out the coarfer Scoritfy efpecially at firft 
taking out of the furnace, and they form it after leveral heats into 
bars; they ufe no limeftone, or any other thing to promote the 
flux ; they get about a hundred weight of metal at one melting, 
which is theprodu6t of about three times fb much ore. 
The ore is got in Fourncfs ; a divifion of Lancapire^ at Icafl 
35 miles from Milthorp-^ lome of it is hard, but feels foft and 
fiTiOoth, like velvet on the outfide; fome of it again is as foft as 
clay, but all of it is red, and lies in beds like coal; the feveral 
forts of ores lie in one vein, which is lometimes an inch, Ibmetimcs 
a foot, and lometimes again three or four yards broad, and many 
fathoms deep, between grey limeftone rocks ; but the hard ores 
lie ulually next the rocks on each lide, and the foft ore in the 
middle ; they frequently ufe the foft ore, and with good luccels, 
as a medicine for the murrain in cattle, and for all dileafes 
in fwine; to which latter, they give a good handful or two in 
milk. 
^he Giant's Caufway in Ireland; by Sir Rob. Buckly. Phil. 
Tranf. 1S° 15)9. p. 708. 
THE Gianfs Caupivay is in the county of ^;7rrm, about 
7 miles eaft o^ Cclraln^ and 5 1 to the eaft of the m.outh of 
the river 'Derry ; the coaft there is very high above the fea, but 
rifing gradually on the land fide to the edge of the precipice, it is 
all covered with an excellent fweet grals; when you come to the 
precipice, there is no going down, the defccnt is lb fteep ; but 
with much labour, and Ibme hazard, it may be climbed up; 
from the foot of this precipice, there runs out northward into the 
ocean a railed caufway of aboiJt 80 foot bn^ad, and about 20 foot 
high above the reft of the flrand ; its fides are perpendicular, it 
is about 200 foot in view to the water-fide, but does not advance 
much farther under the lurface of the water: This whole cauf- 
way confills of pillars of perpendicular cylinders, hexagons and 
pentagons, of about 18 and 20 inches in diameter, but lying fo 
clofe together, that nothing thicker than a knife will enter 
between the fides of the pilLirs; the pillars do not confift of 
joints, but each cylinder is one folid piece, and breaks crofRvile, 
or horizontally, and not Iengthv;iie; and the pieces fo broken off, 
have their bottoms as often convex or concave, as flat and even ; 
and many fuch pieces lie loole on the fand of the lliore ; when 
one walks upon the land below, the fide of this caufway- hath its 
face 
