Sept. 29. 1855.] 



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that from whence those deities were named, which 

 appears to have been Phoenician. 



Cybele, from Cebeil, pronounced Kayheil, i. e. 

 Night Queen : note that Ce, night, is the root of 



Sibyllce, from Sithbille, pronounced SheebiUe, 

 i. e. spirits of trees, or wood fairies. I think the 

 decrees of these divinities were written on the 

 leaves of trees. 



Saturn, from Samhturn or turna, pronounced 

 Sawturn, i. e. the sun blazing in all his fulness ; 

 and as the sun served to measure time, so he was 

 said figuratively to eat his own children, the days, 

 of which he was the Jiuthor. 



Chronos, from Croun, i. e. Time. 



Rhea, and Rhea Hecate, from Re, pronounced 

 Ray, tlie moon, and aicead, pronounced ahead 

 i. e. veiled, " the veiled moon." 



Jupiter, from Jubatair, pronounced Youbdhair, 

 day's father, as name of the sun. 



Neptune, from Naomhtoun, pronounced Nave- 

 ton, i. e. lord of waves. 



Corybantes, from Cuire-ban-De, pronounced 

 Koory-bdn-Day, i. e. the Society of the Goddess, 

 or Priests of the Moon. 



Uranus, from Oirreanna, pronounced Oer- 

 rannd, i. e. the resplendent stars, shining in all 

 their glory. Fras. Cbosslet. 



SEEVBTUS AND COLLADON, ETC. 



(Vol. ii., pp. 152. 187.; Vol.xii., p. 165.) 



In connexion with Servetus, the discovery of 

 the circulation of the blood, and Colladon, perhaps 

 you will find room for the following extract from 

 an article by M. Flourens, in the Journal des 

 Savants, Avril, 1854: 



" Servet a cMcouvert la circulation pulmonaire. Le fait 

 est patent. J'ai rapporte, dans ce Journal meine (Voyez 

 le No d'Avril, 1849, p. 197.), le beau, I'immortel passage 

 oil il la decrit beaucoup mieux que ne le firent, plusieurs 

 anne'es aprfes lui, Colombo et Cesaipiii. Leibnitz carac- 

 t^rise trfes-bien Ce'salpin par ces mots : ' Andre Cesalpin, 

 medecin, auteur de me'rite, et qui a le plus approche de la 

 circulation du sang, aprfes Michel Servet.' 



" Ici deux choses etonnent. Comment Ser^^et, ailleurs 

 si confus, a-t-il pu rencontrer cette lucidite' admirable de 

 quelques pages? Et, d'un autre cote, comment une de- 

 couveite de physiologie, de pure et de profonde phj'sio- 

 logie, se trouve-t-elle dans un livre qui a pour titre : De la 

 Jtestitution du Christianlsme? II y a long- temps que je 

 de'sirais m'eclaircir sur ce dernier point. L'obligeance de 

 notre savant confrere, M. Magnin, m'en a fourni tous les 

 moyens. J'ai vu, j'ai touche' le livre de Servet. Un 

 exemplaire de ce trop fameux livre est soigneusement 

 conserve' dans notre bibliolhfeque ; et, pour comble, cette 

 exemplaire, I'unique peut-etre qui subsiste encore au- 

 jourd'liui, e'tait I'exemplaire meme de Colladon, I'un des 

 accusateurs suscite's par I'impitoyable Calvin contre I'in- 

 fortune' Servet. II a appartenu au medecin Anglais Mead, 

 c^lfebre par son Tralte des Poisons. Mead le donna a De 

 Boze. II fut acquis plus tard par la Bibliothfeque Roj'ale 

 a un trfes-liaut prix. Colladon y a soaligne' les propositions 



No. 309.] 



sur lesquelles il accusait Servet. Enfin, et pour dernier 

 trait d'une trop irrecusable authenticite, plusieurs pages ■ 

 de ce malheureux exemplaire sont en partie roussies et 

 consumees par le feu. II ne fut sauv^ du bucher oil Ton 

 brulait h la fois le livre et Tauteur que lorsque I'incendie 

 avait d^j^ commence." 



J. Macbaz. 



EOMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPRICS. 



(Vol. xii., pp. 125. 189.) 



Although no less than five answers have been 

 given to Mr. Thompson's Query, the reader who 

 is interested in details of ecclesiastical history will 

 probably not regard another as superfluous. Two 

 only of the five sees forming the subject of the 

 Query have been positively identified ; while, as 

 to the remaining three, conjectures of different 

 degrees of probal)ility have been offered, some of 

 which suggest other inquiries. 



Of the ancient See of Mayo but little has been 

 said by Ware (Antiqq., p. 334. ed. 2., et De Pree- 

 sulibus Hibernice, p. 244.), who states that it had 

 been annexed to Tuam on the death of Bishop 

 Celestine O'Duffy, in a.d. 1210. But Harris, in 

 the additions which he has made to Ware's Works 

 (Dublin, 1739, vol. i. p. 602.), adopts Ussher's ac- 

 count that the annexation had occurred in his 

 time, A.D. 1559, when Eugene Mac Bi-eohan was 

 the last bishop. Harris in the same place gives 

 an obviously imperfect list of the bishops, con- 

 taining eleven names, the first being that of St. 

 Gerald, who died in a.d. 697, and the last that 

 of Eugene Mac Breohan, 1559. A revised and 

 much improved copy of this list is given by Arch- 

 deacon Cotton in his valuable Fasti Ecclesice Hi' 

 bemiccB, vol. iv. p. 49., Dublin, 1850. 



A few years ago the Royal Society of Northern 

 Antiquaries at Copenhagen addressed an inquiry 

 to the Royal Irish Academy on the subject of this 

 see of Mayo, and the succession of its bishops, of 

 which, for some historical object, that society de- 

 sired to be informed. 



Archdeacon Cotton regards Rathlin as one of 

 the churches now included in the diocese of 

 Connor, evidently agreeing in opinion with 

 A. B. R. and Mr. Ferguson, that it is the same 

 with Rathlin Island on the northern coast of Ire- 

 land ; while F. C. H. exaggerates it into " what is 

 now the See of Down and Connor." Now to all 

 this there is a very obvious objection, that if 

 Rathlin Island ever was an episcopal seat, it had 

 long ceased to be one in 1479, the date given in 

 Mr. Thompson's Query. The opinion of its 

 having been the seat of a bishop rests on the 

 slender foundation of a single passage in the 

 Annals of the Four Masters, who. In the year 734, 

 record the death of Flann Mac Ceallaigh, Bishop 

 of Reachrainn ; on which O'Donovan, the editor 

 and translator of the Annals, observes that he is 



