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of St. Patrick, Avith gorgets, Lracclots, and hrooehcs. It is recorded 
that at the Dublin Exhibition of 1853, more than G0,000 objects of 
antiquity were colloeted together. There is, also, a model of what 
might be almost termed a fossil hoirse, discovered beneath Drumkclin 
bog, in the county of Donegal, with its patliway of flags, and the roots 
of the trees that sheltered it, and the marks of the woodman's tool on 
its timbers. Yet all around, above, and within this dwelling was a 
solid mass of bog ; for it was sixteen feet below the surface. There 
are some magnificent specimens of the majestic, birt extinct, Irish Ell<, 
Megaceros Hihernicus, to be seen at the College. The antlers of some 
skeletons of this gigantic deer are more than nine feet in expanse ; 
and these creatures stood, when living, ten feet four inches in height, 
and theii- length, in proportion, was ten feet ten inclies ; while that of 
the American moose-deer is but six feet. 
The Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin arc well worth a visit, and wo 
shall long remember the lovely faces we beheld on the occasion of the 
fete given to the members of the British Association. There arc some 
matchless specimens of the Killarney fern, Tricliomanes 7rtdicans, the 
property of ]Mr. IMoorc, the Curator, which are valued at a fabulous 
price. The traveller would do Avell to ask to be allowed to see these 
specimens, as it is very improbable that he will meet with any at Kil- 
larney, the Tridtomanes having been nearly eradicated l)y over-selfisli 
collectors. 
The geology of the Dublin district is of great interest, and wo 
recommend excursions to Howth, Ireland's Eye, and Lambay Island ; 
but let every geologist first provide himself with a reduced copy of 
Su- E. Griffith's Geological Map of Ireland, which may be purchased 
for a few shillings at Forster's, 2 Crow Street, Dublin. 
IVIr. Du ISToycr directed our attention, to a remarkable jimction of 
slate and granite at Killmey Hill. Veins of granite and eurite here 
traverse the granite and slates ; hxA the interstratification of the slates 
Avith the granite is merely in appearance, for the slates are caught uj) in 
the granite, and are not really iuterstratihed. 
On the Irish Cambrian deposits we have a few words to say. We 
visited Bray Head, with its " Oldhamia schists," in company with 
several good geologists and pleasant companions, and were conducted 
by that veteran geologist, Mr. John Kelly, to the best localities for 
obtaining good spccunens of those ancient zoophytes which lie there 
in thousands, bedded in tlic rocks, wliich arc mostly covered by the 
