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ter. Here is an error of half a mile — no small affair when a man is 

 looking for an old coal pit. Again, in the table at p. 72, the boring 

 USTo. 4 is shown to be 36 yards in depth ; in the explanation of the same, 

 at p. 75, he says, "It was only sunk to the depth of eighteen yards." 

 Such work tells its own story. 



I travelled over the ground, and from the rough and inaccurate 

 account before me, make the following attempt to revise the posi- 

 tions of the trials, so that a future explorer may be better able to 

 find them. 



I take Carey Mill as a well known object in the valley, and from 

 this I measure, on the Ordnance Map of Antrim, Sheet 9, the distance 

 to the site of a boring in perches, in a straight line. Thus, the boring 

 No. 3, in Barnish, is 207 perches south-east of the mill, in the southern 

 corner of the townland. The four trials then stand thus : — 



1. The first is in the townland of Drumahitt, eight perches from 

 Glenshesk River; 120 perches southward from the bridge on the nor- 

 thern boundary of the townland, and this point is 99 perches south-west 

 of Carey Mill. 



2. The second was made in the townland of Eglish, close to the 

 river. There is no townland called Eglish on the map. I believe this 

 Eglish is Ballinaglogh — the townland on which the church is built. 

 Eglish, an Irish word, means " The Church." The place would be 

 80 perches west of the mill, on the north bank of the river, and close 

 to it. There is an Eglish to the south, in the mica slate country, but 

 cannot be the one meant. 



3. The third trial was made in Barnish, on the north bank of 

 the river, and is 207 perches from the mill, in a direction a little 

 to the south of east, near the south-east corner of the townland. 



4. The fourth is in Drimadoon, as stated, close to the road, on the 

 north side of it. I take the spot to be at the western house, on the 

 townland of those lying close to, and north of the old road from Bally castle 

 to Cushendall. This spot lies due east from Carey Mill, and 584 perches 

 distant from it. It is 24 perches south-east of the bridge on the northern 

 boundary of the townland. 



By this plan of proceeding a mining engineer may lay down on the 

 Ordnance Map of Antrim, the lines as I point them out, and ascertain 

 the positions of the trials as I found them. 



Of the four trials just mentioned I have full confidence in the posi- 

 tion of No. 3, in the south-east corner of Barnish townland, because it 

 was pointed out to me by Mr. Dunsmore as well known. Of No. 2, I 

 am also pretty sure. In Nos. 1 and 4, I have less confidence, for the 

 data given in the Eeport before alluded to are both vague and inaccu- 

 rate. I have selected for these numbers spots where trials were most 

 likely to have been mude. 



The boring marked No. 6, on Brackney, see Map, PL XXIII., is one 

 of Mr. Brough's trials. There is no record of what was done at that place, 

 only the one, that it was not successful. 



