e ill ; 
However my Affairs have fo unhappily klkn out, 
and I have had To little command of my own Time of 
late, that hitherto I have been forced to deny my fdt- 
the Satisfadtion of going to view this fo curious a Nata- 
ral Rarity in the Country Vvhere'cis fituated, and not 
being able to forelce or promife my kit when it might 
beotherwife-, I would not on this Score delay any lon- 
ger anfwering your Expeftations, snd quitting my (elf 
of the Ingagements I lie under; but refolved at the Di« 
fiance I am, to inform my felf as well as I could con- 
cerniffg it, and then fend you the befi; Account I could 
gather from, all my Intelligence ; which I hope will not 
be altogether unfarisfadory. 
Tho' I have colleded f^om feveral Informations by 
me, many remarkable Paflages concerning this ftrange 
Pile of Stony Columns, yet I fiiali only here fet down 
fuch Particulars as have come to my Knowledge fince 
my waiting of thoie Papers pubhflied in the Phi/ojophz- 
cal Tranfaftions^ Mumh. ziz. to wKich I refer you, as 
well for the redlining fome Errors therein mentioned, 
as to avoid unnecellary repeating v/hat has been already 
faid on this Subjed. 
Perceiving then I could not fb well rely on the 
Draught of the Gia?its Caufway that was firft taken, and 
printed about Four Years fince in the fore-mentioned 
Tranfailton, as being done by the Hand of one who was 
no extraordinary Artift, tho' the beft that could be then 
had ; I propofed the laft Summer to fome Philofophical 
Gentlemen here in Dublin^ that we {liould imploy, at 
our common Charge,, one Mr. Sandys, a good Matter 
in Defigning and Drawing of Profpefts/to go into the 
North of Ireland^ and upon the Place take the genuine 
and accurate Figure of =the whole Rock, with the natu- 
ral Pofturei?f the ffiilrand Country about it forfoms 
diiiance, accordingly we fent him away with fuch In- 
i i % ftruftions 
