" "They said down at market to-day, Mrs. Scogin, that Addie Fitton knocked herself against the woodbin and has water on the knee.

Sir Edward Fitton, one of the judges of the Queen's Bench, was appointed to the province of Connaughta miserably poor appointment as it turned out; Sir John Perrot a little later to Munster; Leinster for the present the deputy reserved for himself.

The geological character of this rock is more fully treated upon in the Appendix by my friend Dr. Fitton.

I am also indebted to Mr. Cunningham for his remarks upon the botany of the country; to Mr. Brown, for his description of a new tree from King George the Third's Sound; and lastly to Dr. Fitton, for his kindness in drawing up for me a very interesting geological notice from the specimens that have been presented to the Geological Society of London, of which he is one of the most active and scientific members.

BY WILLIAM HENRY FITTON, M.D., F.R.S., V.P.G.S.