4 Rev. J. H. Topp on some Fragments of 
proceed to describe them, and to make some remarks on their contents and pro- 
bable age. The leaves are of thin wood, apparently of deal or pine ; they are two 
inches and a half broad by four and a half long, and the writing is along the 
length of the page. A margin a quarter of an inch broad is left round the edge 
of each page, the space within having been filled with wax, which is now of a 
deep brown colour. The letters are traced on the wax with a sharp point, and 
are still, in some places, very legible: the character is Irish, although the lan- 
guage is Latin. The following is all that I have been able to decipher; and I 
give them here, line for line, as they stand in the original; but the engravings 
which accompany this paper, from drawings by Mr. Du Noyer, will give the reader 
a much better idea of these tablets than any description. 
The first leaf contains these words (Plate I. fig. 1) : 
ego probo quod tu non es tu proba 
tu non es ego nec ego sum tu 
sic non sumus ego ergo tu no 
es tuego pr... . .sunt vi coetall 
ni quavis non . . . . sunt coequales 
vellut extellasio continnuans 
gute flualis desuper stellant 
duris‘mum cog°ua lapidem sic 
CXOLSI een eae magistra 
lis discipline ingenium obtusi 
tenebris inogoransie obtusu. . . 
. . . lustrum redit. 
It is difficult to make any sense of this; and some of the words are evidently 
so corrupt, that they appear to have been little better than mere scribbling. The 
next page of this leaf (fig. 2.) contains the following words : 
tres partes oui albumen 
tessta uitellus nu. . . nglit 
nausi rasemus tassta puta 
n... . tessta nusis nuolium 
servat gustabile dirum serua 
t vas uinum dominis potabile 
