'A N E S SA ON AN ANCIENT INSCRIPTION DISCOVERED NEAR LYNN IN NORFOLK. N Norfolk, near the town of Lynn, in a field which been once a deep lake or meer, and which appears from authentic records to have been called, about two hundred years ago, Palus, or the Marfh, was discovered not long fince a large fquare stone, which is found upon an exact infpection to be a kind of coarfe marble, of a fubftance not firm enough to admit of being polished, yet harder than our common quarries afford, and not eafily fufceptible of injuries from weather or outward accidents. It was brought to light by a farmer, who obferving his plough obftructed by fomething, through which the share could not make its way, ordered his fervants to remove it. This was not effected without fome difficulty, the stone being three feet four inches deep, and four feet fquare in the fuperficies, and confequently of a weight not easily manageable. However, by the application of levers, it was at length raised, and conveyed to a corner of the field, where it lay for fome months entirely unregarded: nor perhaps had we ever been made acquainted with this venerable relique of antiquity, had not our good fortune been greater than our curiosity. A Gentleman, well known to the learned world, and distinguished by the patronage of the Macenas of Norfolk, whofe name, was I permitted to mention it, would excite the attention of my reader, and add no small authority to my conjectures, obferving, as he was walking that way, that the clouds began to gather and threaten him with a shower, had recourfe for fhelter to the trees under which this ftone happened to lie, and fat down upon it in expectation of fair weather. At length he began to amufe himself in his confinement, by clearing the earth from his feat with the point of his cane; and had continued this employment fome time, when he obferved feveral traces of letters antique and irregular, which by being very deeply engraven were ftill easily distinguishable. This discovery so far raifed his curiofity, that going home immediately, he procured an inftrument proper for |