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ing it will : One may raife his Voice in it to the higheft 
Pitch, and bring it the deepeft Bale. 
Fig. 3. is 26 Inches long, one Inch wide at the fnaaUTdF VL 
End, and three Inches at the other $ hut Teems to be ?• 
imperfect for want of a Mouth-piece , the (mall End 
feems to be fitted to receive one. On the Back at a. 
there is a Hole, and another unde’- the Moulding at b $ 
the firft I believe was to fatten the Mouth-piece, the fe- 
cond I imagine was to flop or open with tiae Finger to 
alter the Sound at pleafure. But as it is now, it cannot 
be founded ; for it is no way fitted for the Mouth, it 
being thin and fharp 5 which will be beft underftood by 
the Figure. 
I cannot find in any Irijb Story, or by Tradition, any 
Account of this fort of Trumpets, nor indeed of any 
other $ from whence I gather they are of great Anti- 
quity : For had they been of ufe at, or fince the firft 
of the Engl if/) Conquefts, there vVould have been fome 
Hints of them. And therefore I do conclude they were 
of ufe when the Country was Pagan, and not in Mar- 
tial Affairs, but by their Priefts at their Funeral Rights 
when they buried their Dead, and bore a part with 
thofe who cryed at thofe Funerals, or made an howl- 
ing fort of a Noife 5 which fort of Noife is ufed among 
the Natives to this Day. But I refer this to thofe who 
may have met with fome Account that I have not. 
Fig. 4. is an Inftrument of much better Metta!, being yj o 
fine Cold 5 but what to call it, or of what ufe, I never Fig. 4 . 
could meet with any could tell me. There have been 
5 found in different places, three of which I have feen 
fince 1 came to this Place. One was found near Coot- 
hill , in fcowring a Ditch, under the fide of a large 
Stone $ which Stone was one of three which were 
placed triangular-wife 5 whether fet in this form as a 
Mark to find this thing when hid, or whether for any 
other ufe, I cannot guefsy but I have feen Stones in 
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