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more at large in a memoir on the Ogham, and from Irifli docu- 

 ments fliew the origin of alphabetical writing, which the 

 Hiberno-Scythians muft have learnt from the Egyptians, before 

 their defcent to the Mediterranean, to Spain, and thence to the- 

 Britannic iflands.. 



To return to our colonifls. When we were firfl acquainted 

 with this colony, a few of both fexes wore the ancient drefs :. 

 That of the man was a fliort coat, waiftcoat, and trunk breeches, 

 with a round hat and narrow brim ; that of the woman was a 

 fliort jacket, a petticoat bordered at bottom with one, two or 

 three rows of ribband or tape of a different colour. We have 

 feen one, whofe jacket was of fuperfine woolkn cloth, of a dark 

 brown eoloui-, edged with a narrow filver lace. The drefs of the 

 head was a kircher. 



The names of the old colonifls are Hore, Cod, Stafford,, 

 Whitty, RofTiter, Sinnot, Murphy, Stephen, Quiney, &c. The 



idem, p. 29. Or with what people, the Egyptians and Irift excepted, did Stack nab 

 fignify the writing pried, he who was fkiUed in the facred writing. Antiquum nomen 

 ^gyptiacum Grxea Itfoypap/iar.V refpondens videtur fuifle Copt. Sach. quomodo 

 in uerGone llbrorum Scripturae Coptics femper redditur 7fap(*«ws Scriba. Scrip- 

 turae peritus. Lingua ^gyptiorum nabat defignatur ni,i>.m, i. e. fapiens, intel'-- 

 ledu pollens, inde Sach-nebat, the writing prieft. (Jublonlki Panth. ^gypt. 

 Prolegom. xciv. — xcvr.) Or with what people, the above excepted, Aocsfiearr fignify 

 a fon, as in Sein-fior or Sin-fhior, the eldeft born. Sear-eac, a colt, i. e. fon of 

 a horfe, which are evidently the anp' Sheri (filius) of the Jllgyptians (Kircher. ■ 

 WoiDE.); whence fhin-fh,ior or fhean-fhior, the eldeft born, fignifies alfo the pref- 

 bytery, by which it would feem that the eldeft born was dedicated to the church. 



( p 2) gentlemen 



