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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
The sole object I had in view when I first sat down to write, was to give you an account of a very singular and curious monument of antiquity at New Grange, in the county of Meath, in Ireland; and I meant to have confined this account to a mere description of particulars. But when I came to consider these particulars under reference to the general customs of times more remote than the highest antiquity this monument can be supposed to boast, that consideration opened a field for disquisitions of a much more general and extensive scope.
page 237 note [a] Marlborough has been examined, and nothing material found in it.
page 239 note [a] This Druid circle now stands on the brink of a stone quarry; and the labourers were at work close under it; so that in a year or two it may be undermined, and thrown down.
page 239 note [b] See Plate XIX.
page 240 note [c] 
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page 241 note [d] Isaiah, chap. xxiii. ver 13.
page 243 note [e] If colonies of these Eastern merchants and people had been settled in Britain, as there were in Iberia, we might somewhere or other have read of the remains of such colonies and people, or have marked the traces of their language in these isles. There are in Spain to this day the remains of some of those colonies who speak the Phœnician language.
page 247 note [f] It is not merely from the etymology of the words Dodona and Selloi, that this temple, and its priests and prophetic oaks, may be proved to be originally a Celtic establishment, latterly adopted by the Greeks; but history confirms the fact. It will however be sufficient here to say, that in the Celtic language Dodona signifies God's.hill, Duw-dun; and Selloi signifies Seers, or those who foresee things afar off.
page 251 note [g] Letter to Mr. Rowlands, at the end of Mona Antiqua.
page 253 note [h] The reader will find, in a postscript to this letter, some account of the removing of these immense masses of stone; and of the method which I supposed to be used by the antients, as I collected that method from Herodotus.
page 261 note [i] 
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page 265 note [k] Monum. Dan. lib. i. c. vi.
page 266 note [l] Monumenta Sueo-Gothica, Lib. I. p. 215, 217.
page 266 note [m] King's-High-Carn.
page 268 note [n] Greaves's works, vol. I. p. 130.
page 269 note [o] Book ix. c. 36.
page 269 note [p] Dr. Molyneux says, two entire skeletons, not burnt, were found on the floor in the cave, when first it was opened.
page 270 note [q] Homer, Iliad ψ. ver. 245–248.
page 273 note [q] 
, Euterpe, c. 125.