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and he causes the same to be put into 
continual agitation, by any proper first 
mover, so as to present fresh surfaces 
of the metal to the acid, and to abrade 
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.or rub off those parts of it which may 
be sufiiciently oxided.—Inrolled, Jan. 
27, 1818. 
VARIETIES, LITERARY -AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
i 
I pee in April will be presented 
to the public, the long-expected 
Chronicles of Er-i, commencing from 
the earliest point of marked time, and 
carried back traditionally by Eouvs, 
Prince of the Gael of Sciot, of Ib-er, 
who ruled in Gael-ag fourteen hundred 
years before Christ, through periods of 
several thousand years. They still 
exist in ancient parchment rolls, in the 
Pheenician or Gaelic language, having 
been for many centuries in possession 
of the O’Connor family; and several 
of them have been deposited at the office 
of this Magazine, for the inspection of 
the learned and curious. The present 
translation has been the labour of thirty 
years, by the head of the O’CONNOR 
family, who has prefixed a copious dis- 
sertation on the entire subject. These 
Chronicles correct the prevalent errors 
respecting the language and religion of 
this people ; clearly shewing the former 
to be Pheenician, the latter not to be 
Druidie. They demonstrate the origin 
of the tribe, and point out the precise 
time of their emigration from Ib-Er, by 
the way of Aoi-mag and the Mediter- 
ranean, to Gael-ag, the present Galicia 
in Spain. They synchronize exactly 
with the traditions of the Hebrews, 
concerning the overthrow of the Scy- 
thian dominion in Asia, and the esta- 
blishment of Eis-oir (the Assyrian,) on 
the ruin thereof; and the building of 
Babylon and Nineveh. They represent 
Noe, Japheth, and Og, in their true 
characters, and explain satisfactorily 
the passage of Genesis, saying— And 
the beginning of his kingdom was Ba- 
bel, &c. in the land of Shinar: out of 
that land went forth Ashur, and builded 
Nineveh.”? These Chronicles strip 
events of the figurative dress in which 
the Hebrews have decked them, whilst 
the identity is not to be mistaken. 
They give the true original names of 
the rivers Indus, Tygris, Euphrates ; 
the Euxine and Hyrcanian seas; the 
mountain of Caucasus; the countries 
of Armenia, Colchis. Iberia, Albania, 
Phoenicia, and Spain ; and all the rivers, 
mountains, promontories, and principal 
places, in Galicia and Biscay, in Spain. 
They describe the commerce of the 
Pheenicians with the southern parts of 
Britain, and mark the period when the 
isles of Scilly were separated from the 
main land. They explain the signifi- 
cation of the term Cassiterides, and the 
reason of the name applied by the Phe- 
nicians, for the purpose of deception, 
to preserve the monopoly of the mines, 
from which they drew a great revenue. 
They prove that the stone called Jacob’s 
Pillow, guarded with religious care in 
Henry VIIth’s chapel, in Westminster 
Abbey, is not Liafail, the celebrated 
stone of destiny, on which many of the 
kings of Er-i were crowned; which 
Feargus, the son of Ere, was permitted 
to take with him to Ailb-bin, to give 
him assurance, according to the idea of 
the times, of the establishment of his 
race in Ailb-bin. They shew that 
Dane is the most ancient name of the 
people of Danemearc ; and they fix the 
zera of the arrival of the Gael, of Feotar, 
in the northern part of Britain, and of 
the Scythian Brigantes, in Lancashire, 
Yorkshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, 
and Durham. They confirm the accu- 
racy of the traditions of the Hebrews, 
as to the colonization of the isles of the 
Gentiles, by the posterity of Javan. 
They set at rest for ever all the whim- 
sical conjectures concerning the time 
and circumstances of the Gael’s arrival 
in Er-i, the name of the island, and 
many more important matters, too nu- 
merous to insert in this place. From 
the time of Eolus, these Chronicles 
were written by the Ard-Olam of Gali- 
cia, for the time being ; and from the 
zera of the arrival of this colony in Er-i, 
they were the work of the Ard-Olams of 
Ulla‘d, and publicly read by them in 
the presence of kings, princes, nobles, 
Olam, heads of people, and judges 
named, when assembled at the mount 
of Tob-rad, the place of meeting of the 
great congregation of Er-i. 
Akin to the preceding work, though 
originating in a different quarter, we 
must notice a revised and improved 
edition of the Poems of Ossian, by 
HuGH CAMPBELL, Esq. F.A.S. This 
gentleman has been engaged in re- 
searches 
