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1 St. Because Julius and Augustus Caesar used a species of 

 cipher to keep their more important communications se- 

 cret; ergo --_--------_- 



2nd. Because what the writer of the article is pleased to 

 call cryptographic modes of writing, similar to those 

 used by the Irish, were practised in all the northern 

 countries of Europe ; ergo ----____ 



3rd. Because the alleged characters of the ancient Irish 



were not stenographic ; ergo -------- || 



4th. Because certain modern enthusiasts, Vallancey, M'Cur- g g 



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tempts to explain the meaning of characters that must c 

 be now inexplicable ; ergo 

 5th. Because Sir Richard Colt Hoare thought the inscrip- ^ ^ 



tion at New Grange was not Ogham ; ergo - - - a 

 6th. Because Mr. O'Flanigan has been sanguine enough at 

 this day to attempt to translate a certain Ogham inscrip- 

 tion on Callan mountain, and his translation, which they 

 prove was an arbitrary one, is not suited to the intelli- i 

 gence or the omniscient critic ; ergo - _ _ _ _ .° ^ 

 7th. Because the Irish cipher is arranged according to the -o S 

 alphabet called Beth-luis-fearn, but does not totally re- 

 ject the alphabet called Beth-luis-nion ; ergo - - - 

 Note. — What a chaos of names, which the critic evidently 

 does not understand^ and of which he cannot even give the | 

 correct orthography, obscuring, like the ink fish, the ele- 

 ment in which he was unable to contend. 

 8th. Because the book of Lucan, (meaning of course the -g, 

 book of Lecan, which the author of the article, with an « 



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