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Noy, to fight, . . . . . veabad, a dispute. 
7S, Zion, a fortress,. . . O10n, a fortress, hill. 
“DY, tohaste, . . . . . voelpi, haste. 
and in the case of 77 :— 
bon, darkness,. . . - . ceimeal, darkness. 
x77, killing,, . . . . . tons, killing. 
Jr, togo, . . . . . ~ oIC-1M, to go. 
The last dialectic peculiarity which the writer notices is the 
fact, that certain Hebrew letters seem to have dropped a liquid 
(particularly 7 or r) after an initial consonant, which liquid is 
retained in Celtic, e. g. :— 
“1D, a priest, . . . - + cCpulmtecn, a priest. 
NDD, to contract, . . . . cpapad, to contract. 
71D, time, . .- + - + - Cpon, time. 
721M, to practise sorcery | 
(Poel) cpon-aim, to bewitch. 
oel), 
bon, some insect destruc- | . 
: . cpimmiol, a wood-louse. 
tive to trees (Gesenius), j 
In conclusion, Mr. Crawford expresses his conviction of the 
utility of the study of the Celtic dialect to a right understand- 
ing of Hebrew, and consequently to the true interpretation of 
Scripture. 
The President communicated the following notice ofa cor- 
rection of the ordinary theorem by which the magnifying 
power of a telescope is determined. 
Sir William Herschel long since noticed, that in his four- 
feet reflector he once saw the rmg of Saturn without an eye- 
glass, but this remark does not seem to have been attended to 
by subsequent authors of optical treatises. It was, however, 
recalled to Dr. Robinson’s thoughts by his observing that dou- 
ble stars appear in the 15-inch reflector of the Armagh Ob- 
servatory considerably more separated than is due to the 
estimated magnifying power, and still more orcibly by his 
