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great interest and value; we must at all events assign to it a respect- 

 able antiquity ; and it doubtless possesses a sufficient rarity, in the 

 present day, to give it some charms even in the eyes of a connoisseur. 

 It enjoys this further claim upon taste, tiiat it is a fine specimen of 

 art ; and, as such, is certainly very far from being a disgrace to the 

 cabinets of the curious. This medal is the property of Mr. Corlett 

 of Cork. 



Since the reading of the preceding paper, a medal, precisely si- 

 milar to that in the possession of Mr. Corlett, has been exhibited 

 by the Rev. Robert Walsh, of Finglass. It is more perfect than 

 the former ; contains the same inscription ; and has the remains of 

 an haft at tlie side, by which it is quite obvious, that it was once 

 hung as an amulet. The Beth and Hajin, in the second and third 

 lines, are perfect. 



The appearance of this medal makes it clear that they were 

 used suspended, as Wagenseil describes ; and it is more than pro- 

 bable, that they were originally struck to answer the purpose of an 

 amulet. I shall here subjoin the very ingenious attempt of the 

 Rev. Dr. Barrett, to construe the cabbalistic meaning of the in- 

 scription, which he has made since the former part of this sheet went 

 to press. 



I shall premise a short account of the Cabbala, abstracted from 

 the Encyclopedia Britannica. 



" There is another Cabbala, which consists in searching for ab- 

 " struse and mysterious significations of a word in Scripture, fi'om 

 " whence they borrow certain explanations, ^c." One kind of 

 this species " consists in taking the letters of a Hebrew word for 



