Philosophical Transactions is in Prehistory.
4. Several Obfervations relating to the Antiquities and Natural Hiftory of Ireland, made by Mr. Edw. Lhwyd, in his Travels thro' that Kingdom. In a Letter to Dr. Tancred Robinfon, Fellow of the College of Phyficians and Royal Society.
Bathgate near Linlithgow r Scotland, Dec. 15. 1699.
Sir
Your laft, dated fome time in July overtook me about a Month after in Ireland; whence I had returned my Thanks, but that I was defirous to fee fomewhat more of the Country, in order to fome Materials, for a Letter; But having no conveniency of difpatching Letters from the Highlands of this Kingdom, I find I have now fo long defer'd if, that I have by me Materials for feveral Letters; which mutt ferve hereafter, when we traverfe Places affording fewer Curiofities;
We continued not above three Days at Dublin when we fteer'd our Courfe towards the Giants Canfway. The mott remarkable Curiofity we faw by the way was a ftately Mount at a Place called New Grange [Newgrange Passage Tomb [Map]] near Drogheda; having a number of huge Stones pitch'd on end round about it and a fingle one on the Top. Continues: