72 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



to show the appHcation of the key and the results produced, 

 dwelHng particularly on the translations of a few bilinguals, 

 in which the Etruscan characters are accompanied by Latin 

 ones. 



Professor Campbell, however, not content with deciphering 

 loi brief inscriptions, also applied himself, in the second 

 portion of his paper, to the Eugubine Tables, a document 

 hitherto read as Umbrian, though written in the Etruscan 

 character, and containing over 350 lines. This document 

 was found to contain a long and complicated story of 

 an Etruscan and Umbrian revolt, incorrectly related by 

 Livy in the 36th chapter of book XXXIII. of his history 

 of Rome. The remaining portion of these tables, also read 

 as Umbrian, a dialect closely akin to Latin, but written in 

 plainly legible Latin characters, was placed in the hands of 

 Dr. McNish of Cornwall, whose attainments as a Celtic 

 scholar were well known to the members of the Institute, and 

 will shortly be presented to the world as the oldest Celtic docu- 

 ment extant, being in a language closely connected with the 

 Gaelic. They deal with the same events as the Etruscan por- 

 tions, and tell the same story from a different standpoint. 



Mr. VanderSmissen then gave a brief estimate of the con- 

 tents of the paper, and expressed strong confidence that Pro- 

 fessor Campbell's method would ultimately establish itself as 

 true. 



In conclusion, Mr. VanderSmissen announced that Prof. 

 Campbell had succeeded in reading, by the help of the same 

 key, some Celt-Iberian inscriptions in a character which was 

 but a variant of the Etruscan, and which had been sent to 

 him by the Rev. Mr. Webster, of Bechienia, in the Basque 

 country. 



He regretted that he (Mr. VanderSmissen) had not been 

 able, on account of his University work, to give the subject 

 that attention its importance demands, but hoped to do so 



