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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
It may be agreeable to this society to receive some account of one of the most extensive, if not the most interesting, discoveries of stone implements which has of late years taken place within the United Kingdom. Indeed, so far as the number of objects found is concerned, the discoveries on the shores of Lough Neagh may almost be ranked with those of the prolific caves of the Dordogne, or those of the Pfahlbauten of the Swiss Lakes.
page 389 note a Wilde's Descriptive Catalogue Mus. R. I. A. p. 10.
page 389 note b Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2 Ser. ii. 119.
page 389 note a Mr. Robert Day, jun. of Cork, who has more than once visited the spot, informs me that he has himself had upwards of 120 stone implements from Toome, and more than 2,000 flint-flakes, &c. I have myself had above 100 stone hatchets, and upwards of 1,000 flakes, &c.
page 403 note a See Lartet and Christy's Reliquiae Aquitanicæ, p. 14.
page 405 note a Ireland, p. 114, ed. 1637.
page 406 note a Itinerary, part iii. p. 156, et seqq.
page 406 note b Tylor's Early History of Mankind, 262.