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deer, otters, and hares abounded till recently. To this day in 

 Yezo there are in many places great numbers of round pits, 

 about three feet deep by ten or twelve feet in diameter, and 

 near them are rubbish heaps, which contain pieces of old 

 pottery, polished axes, grinding stones, flint spear and arrow 

 heads, and fragments of bone and horn. From the shape of 

 these pits and the traditions of the Ainus, it is inferred that the 

 huts above them were built in the shape of a beehive hut. They 

 consisted of poles stuck in the earth and bent over till they met 

 in the centre, where the ends were tied together. Over the 

 poles were laid bark and grass, and upon this earth was placed 

 to keep out the cold and wet ; in fact, they were of the same 

 construction as the Irish creaghts, which are mentioned as late 

 as 1692 by Story. The hearth was placed near the centre, and 

 the family slept around it. 



Ballymagarry — viz., "The Townland of the Garden" — was 

 probably so called from the fact that the garden which supplied 

 the family at Dunluce Castle was situated about its centre. The 

 site of the old mansion-house is a mile inland from Dunluce, 

 adjacent to a clachan of cottages at the top of a hill, from which 

 there is a glorious view of the coast line from Malin Head to 

 the Causeway. The little that can be gleaned from its past 

 history is briefly as follows: — It was first occupied as a dwelling- 

 place by John Macnaghten, a nephew of Sorley Boy and cousin 

 to the first Earl of Antrim. He died in 1630, and was buried at 

 Bonamargey Abbey. The Lord Lieutenant of the County, Sir 

 Francis E. W. Macnaghten, Bart., worthily sustains the ancient 

 family name. Eandal, the eldest son of the first Earl or Antrim, 

 was born in 1609, and Richard Dobbs notes in his '* Briefe 

 Description of Antrim" (1683): — "The Lord Marquis told me 

 that he wore neither hat, cap, nor shoe, nor stocking till seven 

 or eight years old, being bred the Highland way. He was a 

 proper, clean-limbed man, first married to the Duchess of 

 Buckingham, and after to Rose, daughter of Sir Henry O'Neill, 

 of Shane's Castle." He married the widow of George Villiers, 

 Duke of Buckingham, in 1635, and in 1639 she induced him to 



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