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whence the Male its felf was produced. So that the 
firfl; effential beginnings of things which are incom- 
prehenfibly fmall, will be always hidden from us. 
IV. Part of a Letter from Sir R. B. S.R*S. to 
Dr. Lifter, concerning the Giants Caufway m 
the County of Atrim iu Ireland. 
Old Baivn, Apr, 24. 1693. 
. Concerning the Giants Caufey. Prolixity 
in a Philofophical Defcription I'm fure you'l pardon j 
for I was very exa6fc in getting it from a perfon that was 
mi compos, perhaps peritus ; a Scholar ( a Matter of 
Arts in Cambridge) and a Traveller, who went on pur- 
pofe the lafh Summer with the prefent Bifhop of Deny 
to fee it. It is in the County ot Antrim, about 7 Miles 
Eaft of Colrain, and 31 Miles to the Eaft of the mouth, 
©f the River of Derry. The Coaft there is a very great 
height from the Sea, but rifing graduallyon the Land 
fide to the edge of the Precipice, it is all cover'd with 
an excellent fweet Grafs ; when you come to the Pre- 
cipice, there is no going dowrr there it is fb perpendicu- 
larly fteep, but with much Labour and fbme Hazard it 
may be climb'd up. By other ways and windings one 
comes down to the Strand; in which, from the foot of 
this Precipice,. there runs out Northward, into the Main 
Ocean, a raifed Caufway of about 80 foot broad, and 
about 20 foot high above the reft of the Strand; its fides 
are perpendicular, it went on above two hundred foot. 
to the Sea- Water y that is, it was-fo far in view 5 but as 
