others throats, in the idle difpute of which nation defcended from the other. In fhort, thefe are that mixture of Scythians, Phoenicians, and Ægyptians, known by the Greeks by the name of Pelafgoi, who gave the name of Bruttan, to Britain, because it abounded in Lead; and of Korn bhuabhal or Corn yuaval, to the promontory of Cornwall, because formed like an ox's horn; who named feveral other promontories in Ireland, fheep's-head, wolf-head, mutton-ifland, cow and calf, &c. &c., and the defcendants of these people are now fettled in Ireland, Mann or Mona, and the north of Scotland; fpeaking their primitive language, and ftill adhering to several oriental cuftoms, unknown to the rest of the western world they are the ancien peuple perdue of Monf. Baily.

Dr. Borlafe defcribes many of these brass inftruments found in Cornwall: he rejects the opinion of their being Roman chiffels for cutting ftone, and adopts Thorefby's of their having been the heads of offenfive weapons, originally indeed of British invention and fabrick, but afterwards improved and ufed by the provincial Romans, as well as Britons. I believe the Britons did not trade with these to Herculanum, or to Carthage; at both places they are found in great numbers. The Doctor piques himfelf on his obfervation, that none of thefe inftruments had been found at Herculanum: fince the Doctor published his hiftory of Cornwall, they have been discovered there; Count de Caylus, faw them and has given drawings of them, by which we are convinced of their form and fize, being exactly the fame as thofe found in thefe Iflands.

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Mr. Lort has given a great variety of brass inftruments found in Britain, in the 5th Vol. of the Archæologia, he calls them Celts; he says, Dr. Borlafe faw plainly, that, as heads of offenfive weapons, they were too aukward to have been invented and fashioned by Romans, and too correct and shapely to have been the work of Britons, before the Julian invafion. But as they had been often found in Roman ftations, accompanied with Roman coins; he supposes them to have been of Roman workmanship, after the old British models. Dr. Borlafe and Mr. Lort, had feen brass cafes of these instruments, which fitted them as exactly, as if they had been the molds in which the inftruments were caft. I cannot conceive why these gentlemen hesitate to call them molds; as a certain proof that they were manufactured in Ireland, where the Romans came not either as friends or foes, the molds are found in our bogs: they are of brafs alfo, mixed with a greater quantity of iron, or in some manner, tempered much harder than the inftruments: half of a mold is reprefented in the next plate; it is much burnt by constant cafting of the hot metal.

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Tuagh Snaighte.--Chip Axes.

PLATE X.

Fig. 1. 2. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. REPRESENT different forms of these brass inftruments found in our bogs. Fig. 3, and 9. are smoothed at the fides, and formed to fit the hand, being used without handles; the reft were handled with cleft sticks, part of the wood remained in the bottom of several fockets. Fig. 4. is a small fecuris, called by the Irish a Searr, to cut herbs, acorns, mifletoe, &c. it has a double edge very fharp.

Fig. 10. Is the half of a mold, defcribed in the foregoing Plate.

Fig. 11. Is a chiffel of that fpecies of black ftone, called by the French piere de touche, or touch ftone; being used by the Goldfmiths for trying the colour of gold and filver. This is in the College museum, most of the others are in poffeffion of the Rev. Mr. Archdall, in whofe collection is alfo, the Coopers adze or axe, of brass, represented at the upper corner of the plate; it has been much ufed, but from its form I do not think it is antique. Our Coopers use the fame inftrument, in barrelling up gunpowder,

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