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standing, and those in dotted lines have been thrown down. 

 On five of the stones characters are found, which seemed to 

 be well worth copying, which I have accordingly done, and 

 represented them in the accompanying figures. The most 

 remarkable of these characters occur on the stone marked 

 No. 1, in the ground plan. Those represented in fig. 2, are 

 on the lower part of the stone, and those in fig. 3, on the up- 

 per ; there may have been other intermediate characters, but 

 they are effaced. The spiral in fig. 2, is about nine inches 

 in diameter, and that in fig. 3, about twelve inches. Fig. 4 

 represents the characters on stone No. 2, and fig. 6, those 

 on No. 5, on the same scale as in figs. 2 and 3; and fig. 5 

 represents the stones marked 3 and 4, which are six feet high. 

 It will be observed that in the spirals and other marks, there 

 is some resemblance to the New Grange characters, and in 

 fig. 4, we have a close approach to the Ogham. The copies 

 were made with great pains, and are 1 believe exact in the 

 small details. 



On the difficult subject of these ancient characters little 

 can be done until a greater mass of facts shall have been col- 

 lected ; and hitherto few have been observed in the North 

 of Ireland. Mi'.Windele and other zealous antiquarians have 

 prosecuted the subject in Munster with great zeal and suc- 

 cess. 



Mr. S. Ferguson exhibited some gold beads found in the 

 county of Donegal. 



January 10. 



Rev. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., Vice-President, in 

 the Chair. 



William Andrews, Esq., John ThomasBanks,Esq., Robert 

 Bateson, Esq., John Burrowes, Esq., Rev. Samuel Butcher, 

 F. T. C. D., Fleetwood Churchill, M.D., Alexander Clendin- 



