320 Scientific Proceedings, Royal Dublin Society. 
Banks, dated 4th November, 1795,' besides mentioning the nugget 
of 22 oz., which it was intended to present to his Majesty, refers to 
one of 5 oz. which was destined “for the cabinet of a nobleman 
adored in this country.”” Whether Earl Camden, the then Lord 
Lieutenant, was indicated by this reference I cannot say. Possibly 
it may have been the Harl of Meath. 
If the weight of this nugget was really 5 oz., then it cannot 
be identified with any of those of lesser weight which are de- 
scribed in the following pages. It may have been the one said 
to have been given to George IV. by the Harl of Meath as we have - 
seen. 
According to Mills it and the 22 oz. were the only two of 
superior weight which had then been found. 
Weaver,” at a later period (1819) speaks of nuggets of 18 oz., 
9 oz., and 7 oz., in addition to that of 22 0z., but of these we 
have no other record. 
And here we may conveniently refer, too, to one of 24 oz. 
(valued at £100), and another of 6 oz. (valued at £30), which 
are said to have been found by the peasants in 1856. The 
authority quoted by Gerrard Kinahan’ is Mr. Hugh M‘Dermott of 
Arklow, but nothing further seems to be recorded regarding 
them. 
Nugget of 2112 gis. =4 oz. 8 dwt.—In the year 1844 the Mining 
Company of Ireland exhibited at their stall in the Royal Dublin 
Society’s Exhibition,‘ together with a cake of silver of 8933 oz., 
obtained from lead, a nugget of gold of about 40z. I have not 
been able to refer to the original catalogue of this Exhibition as 
yet; two of the daily papers* of the time, however, attest the 
fact, but the “ Evening Mail’’® by a misprint gave the weight 
as 40 oz.! and this probably was the source from whence the 
‘“‘ Mining Journal”’” quoted the latter weight. Hence originated 
the supposed champion nugget of the United Kingdom, which 
1 Phil. Trans., vol. lxxxvi., 1796, p. 362, Joc. cit., p. 44. 
2 Trans. Geol. Soc., vol. v., 1819, pp. 115-304; and Phil. Mag. vii., 1835, p. 3. 
3 Journ. Roy. Geol. Soc., Ireland, vol. xvi., Pt. ii., 1882, pp. 146 n., 147. 
4 See Proceedings Royal Dublin Society, vol. Ixxx., p. 214. 
5 Saunders and Evening Post of June, 1844. 
& Dublin Evening Mail, 7th June, 1844. 
7 Mining Journal, 1844, vol. xiv., p. 199. 
