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On entering the chamber, which is about four feet square, and 

 nearly five feet in height, above the upright stones forming its avails, 

 are observed seven projecting flags forming a beehive 

 roof capped by a large horizontal flag, elaborately 

 covered with devices, several of -which extend out of 

 sight under the structure, and where no tool could 

 reach ; again affording evidence that the sculptures 

 upon this stone also must have been executed before 

 the erection of the earn. 



In removing the loose stones which had fallen 

 into this chamber, on the centre of the floor was 

 found a circle of earth, about a foot in diameter, en- 

 closing about a hatful of charred bones, which were 

 covered with a flag. Over the flag were raised, for 

 about two feet in height, alternate layers of finely 

 broken and larger stones, among which were found 

 some human teeth, and twenty-four bones, each 

 about four inches long, one of which, in the broken 

 state in which it was found, is here represented full 

 size. The double row of processes, or notched pro- 

 jections, on its lower extremity, will identify it as 

 the smaller and lower of the two large bones in the 

 leg of a kid : and the presence of so many of these par- 

 ticular bones here, whatever else they may have been 

 intended to indicate, may point to the sacrifice of half a dozen of these 

 animals. 



On entering the chamber, the first stone on the left, here repre- 



sented, measures lour feet six inches in height, two feet nine inches in 

 breadth, and is of an average thickness of ten inches. A stone, Xo. 13, 



