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St. T'illan lived, Laving come to this country [Canada,] in tlie year 

 1818, but he had been through Perthshire, and there are several 

 places there named after him, such as Dun-f haolin : the hill of St. 

 Fillan, at the east end of Loch Earn, where women with sickly 

 children used to attend on the morning of the first of August, and 

 bathe them in a spring that rose at the foot of the hill, believing 

 that there was some virtue in the water ; and there they left some 

 of the clothes they had had on the child. On the top of the hill 

 there is the form of a large arm-chair cut out of the rock, where St. 

 Eillan sat and preached to the people. There is likewise, in Strath- 

 fillan, still standing, or at least was when I left Scotland, the walls 

 of an old chapel, where people used to go with those who were out 

 of their minds, and after dipping them two or three times in a deep 

 pool of water that is in Uisge-f haolin, they would leave them tied 

 for the night in the old chapel, and such as got loose through the 

 night they believed would get better, but those that remained bound 

 were concluded incurable." 



In this the Canadian custodier of St. Lilian's Crozier refers to a 

 class of cures associated with the miraculous powers of another 

 relic of the Saint, of which he appears not to have heard, though 

 its associations are little less curious than those of the Saint's pas- 

 toral crook. Among the relics of the ancient Scottish and Welsh, 

 as well as the Irish Churches, none appear to have been regarded 

 with more devout or superstitious reverence than the portable hand- 

 bells which are frequently associated with the name of some venerated 

 and canonized ecclesiastic of the district to which they belong. 

 Among the most prized relics of this class in the Museum of the 

 Eoyal Irish Academy is the Glog heanuighte, which was believed to 

 manifest its sympathy by a heavy sweating on the approacbing demise 

 of its custodiers ; and Mr. John Bell, of Dungannon, thus describes, 

 in a letter to me, a scene which he himself witnessed. " It was an 

 ancient custom to place the bell near any of the Hennings [its here- 

 ditary custodiers,] when dangerously ill. I visited Mrs. Henning, 

 the widow of Paul Henning, the last keeper of the Glog heanuighte, 

 on her death-bed. She lay in a large, badly-lighted apartment, 

 crowded with people. The bell, which had remained several days 

 near her head, seemed to be regarded by those who were present 

 with much interest. The vapour of the heated chamber was so con- 

 densed on the cold metal of the bell, that occasionally small streams 



