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guage in the names of places ; we have none 

 of the ' dons ' and * wicks ' that we meet with 

 so often on our own coasts." 



" Who, then, are the engineers of the 

 raths ?" said the Squire. 



" Probably they were the citadels or store- 

 houses of the native clans,' ' said the Parson ; 

 "but whoever might have been their ori- 

 ginal architects, there is no question as to 

 who possesses them now. They are now the 

 strongholds of the fairies, where they still 

 grow the fox-glove for their helmets, and 

 the lotus for their slippers, and the astragala 

 for their soap, and many other little house- 

 hold necessaries that they could not well do 

 without. And they are as tenacious of their 

 last strongholds as the Knights of St. John 

 were of Malta. Poor things ! if ever they 

 lose these, their order, too, must find its 

 doom ; and for the same reason, — the want of 

 a locality to exist in." 



u I have often wondered at those round 

 patches of rich unbroken turf, that one meets 

 with in so many of their fields," said the 

 Squire; u they are pretty enough certainly, 

 besides being a capital field for the botanist : 

 but Paddy, though, Heaven help him! no 



