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Remarks ^ but my defign being only to give you a Nar- 
rative, and not to Criticize or make Obfervations, l 
leave that Province to thofe who are better able to 
make a Judgment of thefe Circumftances. And as it is 
pretty lure the Urns are Roma/ 7, and confequcntly that 
the Number muft denote a Station or Colony ot that 
People: So I fhould be glad to hear your Thoughts and 
Opinion of the Place where that Station was appointed, 
or Colony planted j upon what Occasion, and at what 
time it might be placed there. I am, &c. 
Note, Two of thefe Urns, of different fizes, with pieces 
of Bones, d(hes, 7 eeth , and part of an old Brafs Inftrument 
(fuppofed to have been a Roman Fibula) contained in them , 
were prefented to the Royal Society by Mr Le Neve, and 
are in their Repofitory at their Honfe in Crane-Court in 
Fleetftreet, 
XXIX. Some Obfervations upon Lough-Neagh in 
Ireland. In a Letter from Francis Nevill Efy 
to the Lord Bifhop of Clogher. 
Belturbet 5 Feb. 12 . 17 12 - 15 . 
My LORD , 
I Hope it will not be amifs to give your Lordfhip an 
Account of what I have heard and obferv’d of our 
confiderable Lake Lough Neagh , fo much talk’d of for 
its changing Wood into Stone, which Report is too much 
credited by fome, who do yet live near. the Lough 5 but 
I can aflureyour Lordlhip, there is no fuch petrifying 
Quality in that Water. I lived fourteen Years in Dun - 
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