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In illustration of the use of the tribe-name, MECCUDROI 
(filiorum Druidis), Dr. Graves observed that Bentr had a 
daughter named HiLpIGuNNA, who was reputed to be a witch, 
and to whose supposed powers of witchcraft allusions occur in 
a story preserved in the Landnamabok. 
Adamnanus, in his ‘ Life of St. Columba,’ mentions a 
robber named ERC MOcCUDRUIDIS, who lived in the island of 
Colonsay. 
There are some peculiarities in the Ogham writing which 
deserve notice. 
It contains the diphthongal character for 02, which is given 
in the alphabets, but does not appear on-any monument that 
Dr. Graves has examined. 
The Ogham strokes are all drawn with reference to a 
medial or stem line. Instances of this in monuments are rare, 
the edge of the stone being almost always used for the same 
purpose. 
The words are separated by pairs of points (:), one at 
éach side of the stem line. The same interpunctuation is com- 
mon in Runic inscriptions. f 
The sculptured faces of the stone present crosses with 
interlaced ornament, figures of bishops with their croziers, and 
other details similar in character to the Irish monuments of 
_ the ninth century. 
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