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Dr. Ferguson also read extracts from a letter addressed to him by 

 Mr. Rhys, of Rhyl, who expressed his concurrence with Dr. Ferguson 

 as to the reading. He writes : — 



" Perhaps you should read ch for q throughout. I wish I could compare with 

 it all the other inscriptions reading in this manner; T can, however, only find 

 that of Glan Fais : Conuneatt moqi Conuri. I should be inclined to suppose none 

 of these to be early, and I am confirmed in this by the absence of the genitive end- 

 ings usual in the earliest type of Oghamic inscriptions. As to the Monataggart stone, 

 I should be inclined to ascribe it to the 7th or 8th century : the oldest trait is e 

 (i. e. e) for the modern la of Fiachrach. 



" On the whole, I would regard the Oghamic method of reading, common to Ire- 

 land and "Wales, as the earliest ; the other methods as later, probably also as local. 



"I take moqoi to be in the genitive, and to mean the pronepos which occurs in 

 Roman characters in Wales. I am not sure but that Glunlegget should be read as 

 Glunlenget, with gg = ng, and be compared with Gaileng, and the "Welsh Evolenig 

 and Corbalengi. If I were you, I would be very sparing in references to Latin, 

 lego, &c. It is altogether a difficult class of words ; the representatives of several 

 Japhetic roots having assumed forms which are often difficult to distinguish." 



Note. The inscribed stone above referred to, together with two others from the 

 same crypt, subsequently discovered by the Rev. Dr. Quarry, is now deposited in 

 the Lapidary Museum of the Academy. {See post, papers read, December, 1874.) 



Dr. Ferguson begs attention to the following Ekkata in his papers 

 in this volume of the Proceedings : — 



(1) At line 14, of page 178 {ante) for obt{a)ceos read oft(a)ceos. 



(2) line 6 of page 201, for Millaghnacross, read MuUaghnacross. 



(3) line 29 of page 81, for probitur read probetur. 



