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Ireland; And still, in our own heterogeneity, or unwillingness, or inability, to concentrate upon single concepts, we Shall--or we sha'n't--accept that, though there may have been a Lost Colony or Lost Expedition from Somewhere, upon this earth, and extra-mundane visitors who could never get back, there have been other extra-mundane visitors, who have gone away again--altogether quite in analogy with the Franklin Expedition and Peary's flittings in the Arctic-- And a wreck that occurred to one group of them-- And the loot that was lost overboard-- The Chinese seals of Ireland. Not the things with the big, wistful eyes that lie on ice, and that are taught to balance objects on their noses--but inscribed stamps, with which to make impressions. Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., I-381: A paper was read by Mr. J. Huband Smith, descriptive of about a dozen Chinese seals that had been found in Ireland. They are all like: each a cube with an animal seated upon it. "It is said that the inscriptions upon them are of a very ancient class of Chinese characters." The three points that have made a leper and an outcast of this datum--but only in the sense of disregard, because nowhere that | know of is it questioned: Agreement among archaeologists that there were no relations, in the remote past, between China and That no other objects, from ancient China--virtually, | suppose--have ever been found in Ireland;