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be noticed a number of large stones, now disposed about the 

 entrance to Milecross Lodge, which evidently at one time 

 formed part of a cromlech or kistaven, or more likely a stone 

 circle. The ancient graveyard of Killysuggan is close by. 

 Nearly opposite is a disused Quakers' Meeting-house, dating 

 from the seventeenth century, which is now a barn, noticeable 

 as being one of the many indications that this religious body,, 

 originally almost entirely agricultural, has now become in its 

 social avocations almost as completely commercial. Passing 

 through Newtownards a few minutes were given to the market 

 cross, which, as an inscription states, the "rebels pulled down and 

 defaced" in 1653, and was "by this loyal borrow replaced" in 1666. 

 A halt was called at the well-known "butter lump rock," which 

 lies on the beach of Strangford Lough, along which the road 

 passes, to give time for one of the party to obtain a photograph 

 of this ice transported boulder of basalt, which has likely been 

 carried from the top of Scrabo hill, and now reposes on the 

 soft red sandstone of lower Triassic age, which here crops out 

 along the shore. The rock was measured by one of the party, 

 and calculated to weigh 130 or 140 tons at the least. Arrived 

 at Greyabbey, some attention was first given to the memorials 

 of the dead in the old graveyard lying to the east of the 

 Abbey. The oldest stone marks the resting-place of Patrick 

 Hay, 1675. In front of it stands rather a quaint one, bearing 

 on the upper part a skull in the centre, with cross-bones on 

 one side and a bell on the other (query, to keep away the 

 powers of evil), and the inscription — 



Here lyes Jean Hay 

 Who night and day 

 Was honest good and 

 Just her hope and 

 Love was from above 

 In which place was 

 Her trust her spirit 

 Left here terrane 

 Part with joy to 

 God wher was her 

 Hart on the 4 day 

 Of Jany. 1767, 



