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S2S, to fight, Oeabao, a dispute. 



*T»2, Zion, a fortress, . . . t>ion, a fortress, hill. 

 IDS, to haste, beipip, haste. 



and in the case of n : — 



b^n, darkness, ceirheal, darkness. 



Sin, killing,' cops, killing. 



"Jin, to go, coic-im, to go. 



The last dialectic peculiarity which the writer notices is the 

 fact, that certain Hebrew letters seem to have dropped a liquid 

 (particularly I or r) after an initial consonant, which liquid is 

 retained in Celtic, e. g. : — 



"1ED, a priest, cpuimceap, a priest. 



SDD, to contract, .... cpapao, to contract. 



1*137, time, cpon, time. 



'Sin, to practise sorcery \ ' 



1 ' r ' 1- cpon-aim, to bewitch. 



(Poel), J 



bD2n, some insect destruc- I . ' . . 



._ . . r cpinmiol, a wood-louse, 

 tive to trees (Gesenms), J 



In conclusion, Mr. Crawford expresses his conviction of the 

 utility of the study of the Celtic dialect to a right understand- 

 ing of Hebrew, and consequently to the true interpretation of 

 Scripture. 



The President communicated the following notice of a cor- 

 rection of the ordinary theorem by which the magnifying 

 power of a telescope is determined. 



Sir William Herschel long since noticed, that in his four- 

 feet reflector he once saw the ring of Saturn without an eye- 

 glass, but this remark does not seem to have been attended to 

 by subsequent authors of optical treatises. It was, however, 

 recalled to Dr. Robinson's thoughts by his observing that dou- 

 ble stars appear in the 15-inch reflector of the Armagh Ob- 

 servatory considerably more separated than is due to the 

 estimated magnifying power, and still more orcibly by his 



