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chief. Therefore he, the most excellent 

 Pastor, bore on his shoulder the Staff of 

 Jestis, and aided of the Angelic aid, he 

 by his comminatory elevation gathered to- 

 gether from all parts of the Island all the 

 poisonous creatures into one place : then 

 compelled he them all unto a very high 

 promontory, which was then called Crua- 

 chan-Ailge, but now Cruachan-Phadring ; 

 and by the power of his word he drove 

 the whole pestilent swarm from the preci- 

 pice of the mountain, headlong into the 

 Ocean." 



