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with a chain, which, being made of silver, was worth 300 cows, 

 with other valuable rarities." — Ogygia, 11. pp. 182-183. 



The same author informs us that about the middle of the 

 third century, Cormac, the 126th Monarch of Ireland, 

 " equipped a large fleet, which he sent to the North of 

 Britain, where he was committing depredations for three 

 years." — p. 238. 



He also states, on the authority of Ammianus Marcellinus 

 and Claudian, that the Saxons, in conjunction with our coun- 

 trymen the Scots and Picts, made frequent excursions to 

 Britain a long time before they made settlements in that 

 country. Ammianus, he says, writes that " the Scots (i. e. the 

 Irish) and Picts, not only invaded those places in Britain that 

 were adjacent to the Roman boundaries, but that in the first 

 year of the Emperor Valentinian, A.D. 364, a combined army 

 of the Picts, Saxons, Scots, and Attacots, reduced the Britains 

 to the utmost distress." Hence, he concludes, there was a 

 common league between them, with intermarriages and com- 

 mercial intercourse. 



According to Dr. Drummond, when we consider the va- 

 rious modes in which Roman coins may have found their way 

 into Ireland, the wonder perhaps should be, not that so many, 

 but that so few, have been discovered. 



The Rev. G. Sidney Smith, D.D., M. R. I. A., read " an 

 Account of some Characters found on Stones on the top of 

 Knockmany Hill, county Tyrone." 



On the top of Knockmany hill, in the parish of Clogher, 

 and demesne of the Rev. Francis Gervais, there are some 

 interesting remains of ancient times. Besides two moats, one 

 internal to the other, there is an ancient chamber or kyst- 

 vaen, consisting of upright flag-stones, about six feet high. 

 It includes a space fourteen feet long by seven wide. Its po- 

 sition with respect to the moats is represented in the ground 

 plan, fig. 1. The stones marked by a darker shade are 



