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XXVII. 'Part of a Letter from Francis Nevill, 
m to the tffygbt ^{e'Verend the Lord 'Biflwp of 
Clogher, containing a Relation of federal Urns 
and Sepulchral Monuments lately found in Ire- 
land. 
BelturUt , Dumb . 9. 1712. 
Mj Lord , 
W HEN Bilhop Hopkins was Bifhop of Rapboe , 
there was a Whale caft on the I Hand Dowcj y 
which belongs to the Bilhoprick} which Ifland is 
about Ten Miles beyond Caftle-doe. This Whale car- 
ried me into thofe wild Parts of the County of Donne - 
gal 3 and whilft I was in that Ifland, and in another 
adjacent call'd Inn is Bofin , which did likewife belong to 
the Bilboprick, I faw feveral Whales playing for feve- 
ral Days together in that Sea. The Whale that was 
caft a(hore was but a (mail one, 50 Foot long : It was 
of that kind that hath the Whalebone in the Roof of 
the Mouth. 
When I came back to Cajlle^doe, I was told of an Urn 
that was found within a Mile of that Place 5 where I 
went, and met with the Man that had found the fame. 
He carried me into a little Ifland, furrounded with Bog, 
where his Cabin flood : The Ifland was very dry, light, 
fandy Ground, which he had plowed : The Plow run- 
ning in fome Places over flat Stones cover’d above with 
Earth, made the Man curious to fearch ; and the 
rather becaufe he was a Clothier by Trade, he wanting 
a flat 
