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work as little worthy of belief, as that the Milesians 

 taught letters before the Christian era,) because this 

 book happens to name sail, a willow, as the fourth let- 

 ter of the Irish alphabet ; ergo ------- 



Note. — The critic was ignorant how many names of trees, 

 shrubs, &c. the Greeks and Latins borrowed from the Celts, 

 e. g. Apv£, an oak, from Deru; Buxus, box, from Beus; 

 Oto-vj?, a twig, from Osiaj; Folium, a leaf, from Follen; 

 AtKra/iov, dittany, from Dittain; Canabis, hemp, from Ca- 

 nab; Kivov, flax, from Lin; Brassica, cabbage, from Brisgin; 

 MgXt^-, millet, from Mil; YIoqqoq, a leek, from Pour; Pa- 

 ^avoQ, a radish, from Rabes; &c. &c.* 

 9th. Because in the time of Caesar, the Druids of Gaul did 

 not use letters ; ergo ---------- 



10th. Because the Irish Ogham was engraven on wood, and 

 that other nations had used the same material, particu- 

 larly the Anglo-Saxons, from whom he of the Cyclo- 

 pedia will have it, the Irish borrowed their alphabet, 

 contrary to the remarks of Camden and Spencer; ergo 

 II th. Because none of these wooden records now remain; 

 ergo --------------- 



12th, Because Mr. Innes delivers it as his opinion, that the 

 Beth-luis-nion was a modern invention of the Irish 

 senachies ; ergo ------------ 



13th. Because the northerns had a Runic character, (the 

 antiquity of which is in the previous column said to 

 have been refuted,) ergo --------- 



14th. Because the derivation of the word Ogham cannot 

 now be discovered ; ergo --------- 



* See Append, of words to Pezron. Antiq. de la Nation, &c. des Celtes. 



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