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try, its sinking to its present level must have been attended 

 with convulsions and floods, which could scarcely have failed 

 to obliterate all vestiges of moraines. 



An objection, brought from the known change of tempera- 

 ture in Greenland within modern times, was met by observ- 

 ing, that Greenland in its best days was always a land of 

 glaciers ; in the extent of which it is easy to suppose an oc- 

 casional increase or diminution. 



Mr. J. Huband Smith gave an account of the discovery, 

 in the month of November last, of a human skeleton, accom- 

 panied with weapons, ornaments, &c., interred on the sea 

 shore, in the vicinity of Lame, in the county of Antrim. 



He suggested, that a timely effort to preserve a record of 

 such interesting discoveries, can hardly fail to rescue from 

 destruction some valuable *' scattered leaves belonging to the 

 lost books of history." 



The locality in which these remains were found is one of 

 considerable historical interest ; it was within less than a mile 

 of Olderflete Castle, where it will be remembered that Ed- 

 ward Bruce landed with a considerable force for the invasion 

 of this country, in the beginning of the fourteenth century. 

 A very cursory inspection, however, suffices to shew that these 

 weapons and ornaments could not have belonged to one of his 

 followers, but must be referred to a period considerably more 

 remote. They consist of a sword of very characteristic form, 

 double edged, and rounded at the point; measuring two feet 

 eight inches and nearly a quarter in its extreme length ; a 

 small portion, said to have been about six inches in length, 

 was broken off and lost at the time of its discovery ; the blade 

 varies from two inches to two inches and a quarter in 

 breadth; — the headof a lance (both this and the sword are of 

 iron or steel, much corroded) ; — a small and very elegantly 

 formed bronze pin, which measures five inches and a half in 



