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that much fuch hfiruments had been found in the IJlg 
ef Man, and that a great many Urns had been alfodid 
cover’d there, as likewife divers Infcriptions with firangg 
Chara&trs, I do not queftion but the Infcriptions are 
Runic^. And ’tis highly probable that the, Inilrnmentj 
were like tho(e in Wormius 5 but if they agree exaPUy 
with ours they will from what I (hall fay by and by 
appear to be Roman. For notwithftanding it be com- 
monly held that the Romans never were in this Ifle, yet 
I fee no other reafon why it fiiculd' be thought fo, than 
that the antknp Authors npw remaining do not mention 
it. This is only a negative Argument^ and what we 
ought not to lay a, very great .upon.^ The Urns 
feem clearly to evince that they were here. I know in- 
deed that ’tis faid that thefe Urns nmft be perfedly Da- 
nipo, by reafon oi black. Bones Apjes AquuA 
in them 5 vvhieh however is no jnre Ground to go upon. 
For I have feen in the Bodlejan Repofitory a I^iece. of a 
Roman Urn whicR*’ 'was dug up feveral Xears ago at an 
old Roman Toxrn in England with many others, fome of 
which were of diffcre?it Figures. Tis now in a Box^ 
and with it are little black Bones, Afloes, 8ec- wrapped up 
in two Pieces of courfe iJnncn. This Linnen is in fhe 
fame pgute with the Urn, but the Urn for one of the 
B/eces IS wanting. The Smallnefs of the fliews that 
they are fhe Relicks oi Children, It was cuftomary a- 
niong the Romans after the Bodies were burnt to wafli 
the Bones with Wine and A/i/4, and afterwards the Wo~ 
we«,v,^rapt. their Children m Linnen, dry"d them in their 
Bofomsy and then put them into - Urns to be buried. 
This Cufiom was alfo peculiir to the Danes, who learn d. 
it from the Romans, from whom likewife they receiv’d 
Urn- Burial it (elf. SuchLlr/;/ too are mention'd by the 
famous Sir Thomas Broion to have been found at Old IVaL 
fifigham in TorkfiTr-. Nor is the Roman Hifiory altot^e^ 
iher filent of the Jpe of Mati s being kno wnto the 
rnans. 
