Now, our _Round Towers_ have similar _shelves_, or recesses in the wall, and “reaching, like a circular beaufait, from near the bottom to the top”! Wherever these do not appear, their place is supplied by _projecting stones_, for the evident purpose of acting as supporters.[528] And as the _Mycenian_, the _Caledonian_, and the _Hibernian_ edifices thus far correspond, the only thing that remains is _to explain to what purpose could those recesses_ serve. I thus solve the question--_They were as so many cupboards for containing the idols of Budha_, as the structures themselves for _temples_ of his worship, etc. Nor is this their use yet forgotten, in the buildings of the like description in Upper India, as appears from the following statement by Archer. “In the afternoon,” says he, “I went to look at a _Jain temple_. It was a neat building, with an upper storey. _The idol is Boadh._ There is a lattice verandah of brick and mortar round the shrine, and there are _small cupboards, in which numerous figures of the idol are ranged on shelves_.” Arguments crowd upon me to establish these particulars; the only difficulty is in the compression. I shall, however, continue to prove this from another source, even by showing that when Ezekiel declared, in allusion to Tyre, that “the men of _Dedan_ were thy _merchants_,”[529] he meant the men of _Ireland_. First let me refer you to page 4, by which you will be reminded of our ancient possession of a _naval equipment_. Secondly, let me quote to you an extract from Vallancey, when directing the result to a different application. His words are: “Another proof of the ancient Irish being skilled in the art of navigation, I draw from a fragment of the Brehon laws in my possession, where the payment, or the reward, for the education of children, whilst under the care of fosterers, is thus stipulated to be paid to the ollamhs, or professors, distinguishing private tuition from that of public schools. The law says: ‘If youth be instructed in the knowledge of cattle, the payment shall be three eneaclann and a seventh; if in husbandry and farming, three eneaclann and three-sevenths; if in milrach, _i.e._ _glais-argneadh as tear_, that is, _superior navigation_, or the best kind of knowledge, the payment shall be five eneaclann and the fifth of an eanmaide; if in _glais-argneadhistein_, that is, second, or inferior (branch of) navigation, two eneaclann and a seventh.’ And this law is ordained because the pupils must have been previously instructed in _letters_, which is the lowest education of all.” Thus you see, at all events, that we were _qualified_ for the duties required. Now, I will _demonstrate_, and that too by the aid, or rather at the expense, of Mons. Heeren, that we were the actual persons pointed to by the prophet.