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Show IRELAND'S ROUND TOWERS. . Lusk-, height 100 feet; circumference, 43 feet. Antrim, height B2 feet; circumference. 50 feet. Meelick, height 70 foet; circumference 42 feet. Cashel, height 80 feet; circumference, 43 feet. Devcnish, height 76 feet; circumference, 43 feet. Tmm'noe, height 96 feet; circum'srence eo feet. Cioudalkiii, height 83 feet; circumference 4S feet. Bcattery, height 125 feet; circumference 62 feet ' Temple Pinau. height 66 feet ; circumference, circumfer-ence, 41) feet. Ardmore, height !W feet; circumference, 53 feet, Sti'oug, rough but excellent ashlar masonry; ma-sonry; rather open jointed; suudstoiie in well squared courses. Jlonasterboioe, height 110 feet; circumference, circumfer-ence, 51 feet Stones roughly hammer : dressed, rounded to the curve of the wait; decidedly de-cidedly though somewhat irregularly coursed. Killala, height 84 feet ; circumference, ,M feet. Stones laid in horizontal courses, well dressed and carefully worked to the round and batter; th whole is cemented in stron-plam stron-plam mortar of lime and sand. ' Turlough, height 70 feet; circumference 57 feet. It is built of rough field stone, un-touchod un-touchod by hammer or chisel, not rounded but fitted by their length to the curvo of the wall, roughly coursed, wide jointed, with small rtones fitted into the interstices; mortar mor-tar of ;oarse, unsifted sand or gravel. Will- I iaro Ci. Hodspn in San Francisco Chronicle, i |