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spaces from the centre of the plate, the tool seems to have been 
used in one direction only, without moving the metal plate, the 
apertures being all cut from the same side, and the cut surfaces 
bevelled in the same direction. Tlie metal of which it is composed 
seems to be very pure and fine. One of the blades, however, has 
become considerably corroded, the green carbonate of copper having 
formed over a great part of its surface. 
The implement measui-es 3| inches in length, the handle being 
2|- inches long; each of the blades is 2|- inches in length, by fths 
of an inch across the middle ; and the whole measures 3^ inches 
across, from face to face of the rounded blades. The handle is 
^th of an inch in thickness ; and the metal is gradually thinned 
down from the centre, to a fine edge, on each side. 
Fig. 2. 
Bronze Kazor (as supposed), from Mxisenm of Eoyal Irish Academy, Dubh'n. 
(Scale, one-half of size.) 
The shape and character of the instrument shows it to have 
been evidently intended for some cutting purpose, and reminded 
me at first of a saddler's or shoemaker's knife for cutting leather. 
The extreme delicacy and thinness of blade, however, would make 
it quite unfit for any such rough purpose. 
ItihTi Bronze Instrument. — In the Catalogue of the metallic 
materials in the Museum of the Eoyal Irish Academj'-, under the 
title of Toilet Articles, a figure is given of the largest of three 
bronze implements, which appear to me to belong to at least the 
same Class of instruments as this one, though certainly not to 
exactly the same species or pattern. (See the annexed woodcut, 
fig. 2, where this Irish bronze is drawn to a scale of one-half its 
