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tiquaries are of opinion, though others call it a 
Work of Art, near Coleraine in Ireland , where 
there are many Thoufands of fuch Pillars angular 
and contiguous, but not joined. The common 
People of the Country call them the Giants Caufe- 
way, from an old Tradition that they were placed 
in that Order by the ancient Inhabitants of the 
Ifland, who were of a gigantic Stature. They pro¬ 
ject a great way into the Sea, and the Stones are 
of the Nature of thofe called Bafaltes, or the Touch- 
ftone. 
The Romans , as they excelled all other Nations 
in the Magnificence of their public Buildings, fo 
did they likewife in the Roads they from time to 
time made, which were for the moft part paved very 
regularly with fquare Stones, and often extended for 
a great Number of Miles. We have the Remains 
of feveral in England , where they are called Streets, 
as Ickenild-jireet , Ermin-Jlreet , Watlin-flreet, and 
others. They are in many Places vifible, and ap¬ 
pear like a Caufeway. 
There is in this Hall to be feen a Stone that was 
brought from the (Via Appia) Appian Road, which 
led from Rome to Brundufmm. Appius had the 
Honour of making it for the Ufe of the People 
of Rome. 
You alfo fee here two Fragments of Granite Co¬ 
lumns, (a hard kind of Marble which does not take 
a good Polifh; many other Stones have the fame 
Quality) fome curious Pebbles, and two antique 
Heads called Termini , being ufed by the Romans as 
Landmarks. 
A large Piece of ferpentine Stone is next to be 
noticed: It was called Ophites , from its Refemblance 
to a Serpent’s Skin. This Specimen has a blackifh 
Ground ftreaked with green and pale yellow. There 
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