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work snatched from our hands by the blast, and whirled in fragments 

 over the Atlantic. On our second visit the wind was in a more 

 favourable quarter, but we had to work under heavy driving rain, and 

 only succeeded in bringing away the moulds unbroken by having 

 appliances specially prepared for their reception. 



Tempestuous weather also rendered abortive our first visit to the 

 stone at Camp. On a second occasion we were more fortunate, and 

 had the satisfaction of bringing away moulds not only of the known 

 series of Ogham characters, existing along the eastern arriss of the 

 monument, but also of a cross, and — more important — of a Latin 

 legend inscribed in Roman letters, hitherto unobserved, or, if ob- 

 served, unnoticed by those who have published accounts of the Camp 

 inscription. 



The mould adds to, and detracts nothing from, the unusually accu- 

 rate representation of the Ogham groups communicated by Archdeacon 

 Rowan, save that the cross-like indentation is seen to consist, not of 

 two crossed digits, but of two semi-circular characters set back to 

 back. 



The Latin epigraph, giving to the Camp stone the distinction of 

 being the second bilingual found in Ireland, is incised on the upper 



face of the block, in a direction contrary to the course of the associated 

 Oghams. It is in the mixed minuscular and uncial letters in use in 

 the post-Roman period in Britain, numerous examples of which may 

 be seen in the late editions of Camden, and in the learned contribu- 

 tions of Professor "Westwood to the Cambrian Archaeology. It appears 

 to read feci (or fecit), cuNrnsn (or Conuni), or Cununit (or Commit), 

 and in the use of different forms of the same letters n and u, if the 

 second character be u, within the compass of the same word, exhibits 

 a peculiarity not uncommon in Romano-British lapidary writing. The 

 letter n in its uncial form is nothing remarkable, but in its minuscular 

 form it is so damaged as to be almost converted into an o, and if the 

 preceding character could be read as r, would give the name an 

 appearance of Cunroi, or Conroi, which would indeed be very sig- 

 nificant having regard to the surrounding local traces and tradi- 

 tions. But the long, cursive u is too distinct to be taken for any 



