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If then the lymphatic glands are either cellular, or receptacles resembling bags 

 for the absorbed fluids, we are naturally led to inquire, what advantage arises 

 from this temporary effusion of the contents of the arbsorbents. That there is 

 a considerable quantity of fluids poured forth from the arteries of the whale, to 

 mix with the absorbed chyle, is very evident ; nor can it be doubted that the 

 same thing happens in other animals; for the cells of the lymphatic glands are 

 easily inflated, and injected from the arteries. The ready communication of 

 these bags with the veins of the whale induced me to examine, whether I could 

 ascertain any thing similar in other animals. Air impelled into the lymphatic 

 glands however seldom gets into the veins; sometimes indeed, veins are injected 

 from these glands; but when this has occurred to me, I have observed an ab- 

 sorbent arising from the gland, and terminating in the adjacent vein. These 

 remarks perhaps may not be very important; such however is the nature of the 

 subject, that all the knowledge we have hitherto obtained of the absorbing vessels 

 has been acquired by fragments, and all our future acquisitions must be made 

 in the same manner: I have wished therefore, by offering these observations, to 

 contribute my mite to the general stock of our knowledge of this subject. 



///. j4n /Account of the late Dicovery of Native Gold in Ireland. By John 



Lloyd, Esq., F. R. S. p. 34. 



The late very important mineralogical discovery in Ireland, and a desire I had 

 long entertained of visiting the celebrated copper mine at this place, Cronbane 

 Lodge, near Rathdrum, with the opportunity that offered, of making my tour 

 in company with our friend Mr. Mills, who is one of the proprietors, as well 

 as sole director of the mine, determined me to seize this moment for my excur- 

 sion ; and yesterday Mr. Mills and I visited the spot, where so much pure gold 

 has been of late taken up, being distant about 5 miles from this place. 



About 7 miles westward of Arklow, in the county of Wicklow, there is a very 

 high hill, perhaps 6 or 700 yards above the sea, called Croughan Kinshelly, one 

 of whose N. E. abutments, or buttresses, is called Balinnagore, to which the as- 

 cent may be made in half or three quarters of an hour. Should you have Jacob 

 Nevill'smap of the county of Wicklow, published in 1760, at hand, by casting 

 your eye on the river Ovo, which runs by Arklow, at about 4 miles above the 

 latter place, you will perceive the conflux of two considerable streams, and of a 

 third about half a mile higher up, close to a bridge. By tracing this last to its 

 source, you will come to a place, set down in the map Ballinvally ; this is a ravine 

 between 2 others, that run down the side of the hill into a semi-circular, or rather 

 semi-elliptical valley, which extends in breadth from one summit to the other of 

 the boundary of the valley, and across the valley three quarters of a mile, or 

 somewhat less. The hollow side of the hill forms the termination of the valley. 



