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Dr. Graves observed, that these stones formed a valuable 
donation to ther Museum. Mr. Hitchcock had before pre- 
sented monuments of the same kind, but in the present case 
he was a discoverer as well as a donor. Both these stones 
had been found in the county of Kerry, and were well pre- 
served. 
The inscription on the first of the monuments appeared 
to contain two proper names. It commenced with the word 
Curci, which Dr. Graves took to be the genitive case of the 
proper name Core. It also bore a name beginning with 
Mucoi (which appeared on a great number of these monu- 
ments, —he should say, speaking from recollection, on as many 
as six or eight of them), and which he took to be the name of a 
tribe. The inscription was not altogether perfect, the very end 
being broken off; but all the characters are exceedingly dis- 
tinct. Core was a very well-known Irish name ; and although 
the other name had not as yet been identified, he hoped to 
ascertain what it was, by examining the pedigrees of the an- 
cient tribes occupying the district in which the stone was 
found. This stone, from its rudeness, might be supposed to 
be a pagan monument; but the other had two crosses upon 
it, one at either side, thus supporting the opinion of those 
who referred these inscriptions to the Christian period; and in 
particular he would notice in this monument the fact, that 
so far from there being any ground for saying that the cross 
could be more recent than the inscription, an unprejudiced 
person, carefully examining the stone, might be disposed to 
arrive at an exactly opposite conclusion. The inscription is, 
on the whole, sharper than the cross; but Dr. Graves ex- 
plained this by supposing, that while they were cut on the stone 
at the same time, the cross has been worse preserved than the 
Ogham strokes, because it was upon that face of the stone which 
was in the direction of the cleavage—the effect of the action 
of the weather being to cause the surface of the stone to scale 
off; while the strokes which were cut across the grain were 
