They have many of a very great height, but there are three much ſuperiour to the others; the firſt is called Snafles, from the Top of which, you may ſee England, Scotland, and Ireland; the next, Barool; and the third, Carrahan. Under theſe, they tell you, lie the Bodies of three Kings, from whoſe Names, the Mountains take their Denominations, as they had their Riſe from their Burials: for having in thoſe Days no Notion of Architecture, or erecting Monuments, the only Way of perpetuating the Memory of the Dead, was to throw a huge Pile of Earth over them: Every body, in paſſing, for a great number of Ages, thinking themſelves obliged to contribute towards the pious Work, and throwing on a little, according to the Strength, or Time, they were Maſters of, has raiſed them to the ſtupendous Height they are now arrived, eſpecially that of Snafles, under which, we may ſuppoſe, either the greateſt, moſt ancient, or moſt beloved Monarch lies. Theſe rude Mauſoleums ſeem, methinks, to ſhame the Pride of the modern Architecture, being likely to continue, when thoſe built of Marble, with
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