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Account of them. A Gold Coin of the Emperor Falen- 
tiniany being found near the Top of this Mount, might 
befpeak it Roman ; but that the rude Carving at the En- 
try and in the Cave feems to denote it a Barbarous 
Monument. So, the Coin proving it ancienter than any 
Invafion of the OJlmans or Danes 3 and the Carving and 
rude Sculpture, Barbarous 3 it fhouid follow, that it was 
fome Place of Sacrifice or Burial of the Ancient Irijh, 
The Giants Caufway is fo well defcribed in the Phil. 
Tranfatf* £N Q 212 St 241.] that nothing can be added to 
that Account of it. We have the fame Stone on the Top 
of Cader Idris , one of the higheft Mountains of North 
Wales 3 but ours is lefs elegant, and does not at all break 
off in Joints 3 nor could I fatisfy my felt that there are 
fet Joynts (as in the Entrochus and Afteria') in the Bafaltes 
of Ireland 3 but that it is the Nature of the Stone to 
break off in fuch a convex Form. However, we could 
perceive no Seams in thefe Pillars, excepting on thofe 
Sides that were expofed to the Weather. 
An other remarkable Curiofity we met with, was a 
Copper Trumpet like a Sow-Gelders Horn 3 having the 
Hole for founding near themidft, and two Rings at the 
fmaller End 3 above two foot long. Three of thefe 
were found in an old Karts ( i . e. a great Heap of Stones) 
at Balle Niter near Carreg Fergus. 
We could make nothing of the Petrifying Quality of 
Loch Neach 3 but that they fometimes find Stones there, 
having the Grain of Wood. 
We met with fome Irijh Inscriptions there, and others 
here 3 which none of the Critics in that Language we 
converfed with could interpret. 
Near Larne in Antrim we met with one Eoin Agniw , 
whofe Anceftors had been Hereditary Poets, for many 
-Generations, to the Family of the 0 Neds 3 but the 
Lands they held thereby being taken away from his Fa- 
ther , he had forfaken the Mufes and betaken himfeff to 
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