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ceived it about 1 1 o'clock. It continued unchanged for about 

 an hour," The phenomenon was seen, under a much more 

 complex form, by Mr. Lowe, at Lenton, Nottinghamshire (see 

 Phil. Mao-., Nov. 1844), and the fact indicates the very wide 

 outspread of the high cirrus and cirro-stratus cloud, by the 

 frozen particles of which it is produced. The existence of this 

 cloud in the neighbourhood of the moon is also recorded in 

 the Day-book of the Dublin Magnetical Observatory, at 10 

 p. M. of the same night. It would be interesting, in this point 

 of view, to multiply the records of such phenomena, so as to 

 be able to trace the extent and limits of the cloud in question. 

 I find, in the Philosophical Transactions, that a remarkable 

 halo surrounding the sun, accompanied with parhelia, was seen 

 on the same day (Oct. 20, 1747), at Paris and Berlin; but 

 the evidence derivable from such a fact is incomplete, in the 

 absence of any account from intermediate stations. 



Rev. Thomas Porter, D. D., presented an ancient wooden 

 table and dish, and communicated the following notice : 



The wooden table and dish to which this notice relates, 

 were dug up in a peat moss, or turf-bog, near the road from 

 Donaghey, in the towuland of Killygarvan, parish ofDesert- 

 creight, or Dysertcreaght, County of Tyrone. — (Ordnance 

 Survey, Sheet 38.) They were found four or five feet below 

 the surface. With the dish there was a quantity of hazel 

 nuts. Each article was cut out of a solid piece of wood, ap- 

 parently fir. The table is of an oblong shape, with the ends 

 curved inwards towards the centre. 



The four short legs, about six inches high, are in the form 

 of truncated cones, and about four inches thick. They are con- 

 nected at their bases, except on one side, by a low rim, about 

 one inch high, in the longest side of which are two holes, 

 capable of admitting a cord or thong. 



The dish was a long oval, four or five inches deep, clum- 



