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precisely of the same pattern as those of gold found in 
Ireland, aud which were supposed to have been used for 
sacrificeing the vietims in those barbarous days. The 
torque, armlets, and rings, convince us that she was one of 
high rank, and the Jogh-Draoch, I conceive, gave the 
possessor the order of priesthood. 
Some of my Archxological friends will exclaim—If this 
be your theory, how do you account for a priestess having 
in her possession the four palstaves®? My reply would be, 
might they not have been trophies, taken from the vietims 
she had sacrificed ? Others, Iam aware, do not believe that 
any human sacrifices were ever made in Britain; but if we 
give up this chief, though inhuman rite, then farewell to 
Druidism, which from henceforth must be considered 
altogether fabulous. 
