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breadth, and little more than four inches in thickness. It is 
covered on both its sides, as well as on the edges, with elabo- 
rate patterns, chiefly foliage, and stands on a base of modern 
masonry, consisting of an ascent of seven steps above the level 
of the street. 
Mr. Smith also exhibited a similar restoration of the in- 
scription on the cross which stands upon the Quay at Inverary, 
which reads thus :— 
HC : EST : CRVX : NOBILIVM : VIRORVM : VIDELICET : DONDCANI : 
MEICGYLLICHOMGHAN : PATRICI : FILIT : EIVS : ET : MAELMORE : FILII : 
PATRICI : QVI : HANC : CRVCEM : FIERI : FACIEBAT : 
And lastly, a restoration of the inscription on a shattered 
shaft of a cross, which lies within the ruined church of St. 
Oran, in the island of Iona, in the following words :— 
HEC : EST : CRVX : LACCLANNI : MEIC : FINGONE : ET: EIVS : 
FILII : IOHANNIS : ABBATIS : DE : HY } FACTA : ANNO : DOMINI : 
M : CCCC : LXXX : IX: | 
The date upon this last-mentioned cross fixes with cer- 
tainty the period to which the three foregoing inscriptions, 
which are all cut in characters of the same form, are to be re- 
ferred. 
Mr. H. D. Graham, who published a small quarto volume, 
in 1850, with numerous lithographed illustrations of the ec- 
clesiastical buildings and monumental remains at Iona, states 
‘that during an excursion made in Lorn (Argyleshire), he 
visited many burial-grounds, and found in nearly every one 
some stones brought from Iona. 
Pennant, whose Tour in the Hebrides was made in the sum- 
mer of 1772, seems to have been the person who gave cur- 
rency to the story (afterwards partially adopted by Sir Walter 
Scott in his poem of ‘“‘ The Lord of the Isles”), that ‘360 
crosses were standing in the island of Iona at the Reformation, 
but were immediately after almost entirely demolished by 
order of a Provincial Assembly held in the island;” and re- 
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