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of his presentation of a nugget to his Majesty, he is by the above 
brought into touch, so to speak, with the 22 oz. nugget, and as he 
was styled Port Surveyor then, the change may have been to that 
of Coast Surveyor, as he is called in Dr. Fitzpatrick’s Memoran- 
dum. 
I am not prepared at present to follow up this identification 
of the donor and recipient of the 22 oz. nugget any further, but I 
think we are justified in the conclusion that Abraham Coates and 
Turner Camac were probably the donors, or, at least, were con- 
nected with the donation, and that George III. was the recipient. 
Although I have not been able to obtain information from 
Windsor Castle as to the existence of any trace of this transaction, 
I by no means despair of such being ultimately found. That 
a snuff-box was made of a 22 oz. nugget may seem incredible, but 
possibly in some other form, and with an inscription, the metal 
may have been preserved, and this record of fact and dissipation 
of myth will, I trust, aid in its ultimate identification. 
It may not be generally known that the discovery of the 
mines led to a dramatic performance being enacted at Covent 
Garden, under the title: —‘‘ The Lad o’ the Hills; or, the Wick- 
low Gold Mines:” a Comic Opera, by Mr. O’ Keeffe. 
Having thus placed the history of one of the largest Wicklow 
nuggets in a clearer position than it has hitherto occupied, and 
brushed away some of the myths and traditions which have for . 
so many years obscured it, let us proceed to discuss the histories 
of the principal remaining Wicklow nuggets known to fame. 
I studiously avoid discussing the question of the character and 
production generally of the Wicklow Mines themselves; that has 
already been well done by the late Mr. Gerrard Kinahan. Pro- 
bably he had neither the means nor the opportunities for conduct- 
ing a critical investigation into the histories of the individual 
nuggets; this has rendered it desirable that they should be 
discussed fully and at length; and it must be added that his 
table giving the weights and other particulars of the nuggets 
found, requires considerable amendment in the light of the facts 
here collected and placed in order. 
Nugget of 5 ownces.—John Lloyd in his letter to Sir Joseph 
1 See Hibernian Magazine, Pt. i., 1795, p. 461. 
