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day would designate as fives. The single unions of the upper 
leathers are sewed in a remarkably neat manner, with fine 
strips of leather, or the dried intestines of some animal. The 
outer soles were fastened on by a number of round-headed 
nails, the whole of which have entirely disappeared, leaving 
only the apertures marked by the counter-sunk circles which 
the heads have left. These are arranged in a chain pattern 
down the centre of the soles, and a single row round the 
circumference. The inner sole of one is composed of two 
pieces of leather, apparently to economise material, and con- 
nected here and there by narrow strips of leather interlaced. 
The soles are not symmetrical, but slightly incurved, so as to 
present a remote resemblance to what are termed rights and 
lefts — which configuration is seen in Roman shoes, as also 
in the native manufactured sandals of some Indian tribes. 
What the age of these shoes may be it is perhaps difficult 
to determine with any degree of certainty, and it is only by 
comparison we can arrive at a probable conjecture. The 
neatness of the one seam might suggest an idea that they 
cannot be very old. This circumstance, however, supplies no 
evidence whatever against their antiquity, as in portions of 
Egyptian garments taken from a mummy in the museum of 
the Leeds Philosophical Society, known to have been interred 
1723 years before Christ, there occur not only dams, but 
seams of great neatness, which are now, therefore, above 3593 
years old. In 1821, a human body, completely clad in a 
deer- skin garment, was found in a peat bog on the lands of 
Gallagh, near Castleblakeney, Coimty of Galway, and the 
latter was for many years exhibited in the museum of the 
Royal Dublin Society, but of which only a few fragments 
now exist. In some of these, however, the seams by which 
it was originally drawn together still remain, and are 
remarkable, as Sir Wm. Wilde informs us, for their neatness 
and the regularity of the stitches, and which, singularly enough, 
