BuiCK — On Ogams dkcoveved near Connor, Co. Antrim. 267 



difficult to make some of them out. A few defied all attempts to 

 deciplier them. These last belonged to stone No. 2, the arris of which 

 had been much rubbed down, but whether in the souterrain or before 

 the stone was put in its place it is impossible to say. Probably the 

 latter supposition is nearer the truth. 



Those present spent a long time over the examination of the scores, 

 and the general conclusion arrived at was that the legend on stone 

 No. 1 — the longer of the two — reads — 



TO K AES C E USAS3IAQUI5IUC0I 



/- I I H H»- -*"— H-H4- r i i i i -n-n-i- 



M E U T I jST I, 



and that on stone No. 2 — 



TTJTAXOTEMAQ I VABRAC I 



Mr. Kermode, of Ramsay, Isle of Man, who has given much atten- 

 tion to^Ogams, writing afterwards of the inscriptions, says : — 



"I find my final reading of the smaller stone set down without 

 any doubt as follows : — 



' Tutanote maqi Vabraci.' 



With the longer one there was no difficulty about the first three 

 characters. Then followed five points, which of course may stand for 

 AE, as suggested, I think, by Dr. Buick. The next two are clear, and 

 are followed according to my first reading (taken down by Professor 

 Rhys), by eight points, but I see I corrected this to seven points, 

 making e, tj. This is followed without any hesitation by sasmaqi. 



" Then I appear, on first reading, to have lost the places and omitted 

 31, tr, continuing with c and five points, and then two points, which, 

 however, I afterwards took down as two points, and then five — not 

 I, 0, but 0, 1. The next character, m, is clear, but I seem again to have 

 got confused over the vowel points, which I note as five, but afterwards 

 correct to seven, making e, v. The rest is clear, tint." 



Professor Rhys sends the following, which throws a flood of 

 light on the inscriptions, and shows at the same time the great 

 importance of the investigation : — 



" With regard to the Connor ogams, I was much struck by the 

 minuteness of the writing and the shallowness of the scoring, which 



