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this choice and valuable Colledion is dc- 

 pofited 5 it was well known before the 

 Death of the late Noble Owner of it, 

 and is fit for the Purpofe for which it is 

 made ufe of: I fhall therefore omit any 

 particular Defcription, and content myfelf 

 with only taking a flight Notice of the 

 Frefco Paintings in their proper Places. 



To begin my Remarks with the Con- 

 tents of the Hall, I fhall, in Honour of 

 our own Iflands, firft take Notice of feven 

 Blocks of very hard Marble of an hexan- 

 gular Form : They were brought from 

 an amazing Produ6lion of Nature, as 

 jnoft Antiquaries are of opinion, though 

 others call it a 'Work of Art, near Coleraine 

 in Ireland^ where there are many Thoulands 

 of fuch Pillars, angular and contiguous, 

 but not joined. The common People of 

 the Country call them the Giants Caufe- 

 way, from an old Tradition that they 

 "were placed in that Order by the ancient 

 Inhabitants of the Ifland, who were of a 

 gigantic Stature. They projeft a great 



Way 



