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mass of fog, which we again passed out of before reaching 

 Westland-row Terminus. I know not how far, if at all, such 

 fogs may be found connected with luminous meteors. 



" On the 30th of October last, at about 5 o'clock in 

 the evening, being on the strand of Killiney Bay, my son 

 and I also saw a meteor, very much like that I have just des- 

 cribed, flying horizontally, and disappearing in the opening 

 between the obelisk and Rochestown hills. It was too distant 

 and little seen to enable any accurate observation to be made ; 

 but it was, like the present, at the first glance taken for a 

 rocket." 



The Rev. Dr. Todd read the following extract from a 

 letter from John T. Rowland, Esq., giving an account of the 

 discovery of a rudely cut stone found near Ardee : 



" I send you herewith, for presentation to the Royal 

 Irish Academy, an ancient basin or urn, which I found in 

 January, 1848, on the lands of Paughenstowu, about two and 

 a half miles east of Ardee, where caves had been discovered 

 by workmen employed in deep-draining a large field which 

 had been laid down for many years, and which in appearance 

 was almost level, presenting no indication whatever of tumuli 

 or mounds. 



" When I arrived at the place, there were, in the middle of 

 the field, two great heaps of stones, the scattered remains of 

 the caves or chambers. It appeared that the workmen (in 

 making a drain from north to south) came upon a wall of dry 

 stones, at a depth of about five feet from the surface ; in fol- 

 lowing which they found it to be one of two walls running 

 parallel, about two and a half feet asunder, forming a passage 

 covered with large flags, running on to a distance of about ten 

 feet, when it turned to the west, and opened into a circular 

 chamber about twelve feet in diameter and ten feet in height, 

 having a conical roof, capped on top by a large flag about six 

 feet in diameter, which still lay on the field unbroken. In this 



