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mentioned crosses which are now to be seen at Campbellton 
and Inverary were transported from Iona, and placed in the 
position they at present occupy. 
The name Yvar, which occurs in the inscription on the cross 
at Campbellton, obviously of Scandinavian origin, appears to 
afford a curious illustration ofthe opinion entertained by many 
Scottish antiquaries, of the Norwegian descent of several 
of the clans in the western Highlands,—one of the most 
distinguished and powerful of those being Macleod of 
Macleod, whose chief fortress was the castle of Dunvegan, 
in Skye. 
In the Annals of Innisfallen, at the year 853, is recorded 
the arrival in Ireland of the Norwegian chiefs Yvar and Sit- 
ric. Giraldus Cambrensis states that they were the brothers 
of Anlaf, and that by them the three cities of Limerick, Wa- 
terford, and Dublin, were built. 
Pennant, speaking of the Mull of Cantyre, the promon- 
tory which lies at the southern extremity of Argyleshire, cites 
Torfeus for the following singular circumstance :—‘* When 
Magnus the Barefooted, King of Norway, obtained from 
Donald-Bane, of Scotland, the cession of the western isles, 
or all those places that could be surrounded in a boat, he 
added to them the peninsula of Cantyre by this fraud: he 
placed himself in the stern of a boat, held the rudder, and was 
drawn over this narrow track, and by this species of naviga- 
tion wrested the country from his brother monarch.” The 
narrow isthmus which joins Cantyre to South Knapdale is 
formed by the western and eastern lochs of Tarbat. These 
two salt-water lakes, or bogs, encroach so far upon the land, 
and the extremities come so near to each other, that there is 
not above a mile of land to divide them. 
The President read a Paper on the ancient Missal, and its 
silver box, described by Dr. O’Conor in his Catalogue of 
