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in places made the reading very hard, or even impossible ; but the 

 task had been much facilitated by the legends already published by 

 the Eev. Dr. George R. Buick and the Rev. "W. P. Carmocly, Rector 

 of Connor, in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology and in the Journal of 

 the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Ireland, December, 1898. Dr. Buick 

 transliterated the first and longer inscription, thus :— 



TOK AE S CE TJ SASMAQTJI 



I 1 



I JJH. n- H+^^- / 1 1 11 — It*- ''^ ' <i i ii i| || | — i-m-t- 



ACOIMEXJT I N I 



E TJ 



'' The 77^ is a misprint for // y y/ r, and the rubbing suggested 

 to Mr. Cochrane that there was room for Mucoi Meutini, instead of 

 Acoimeutini. This, in its turn, brought to my mind, the well-attested 

 name of Meuthi ; so we were very curious to see what a further 

 scrutiny of the stone in the light of day and under far more favourable 

 circumstances, would reveal. What we found was that Mr. Cochi-ane's 

 suggestion was borne out by it. The i of maqiii we perceived to be 

 very crowded : the reading then went on, following the irregularities 

 of the edge, and, after some scrutiny, we found the m, of the next 

 word and the whole of the word mucoi \ possibly, however, it was 

 mocoi : at any rate I could not feel quite certain. To tui'u back, for 

 a moment, to one or two other details, I may mention first that we 

 agreed with Dr. Buick in treating the second vowel group as -!--!«• ae^ 

 rather than -h-«^- i • but as to the next, I could only convince 

 myself that it consisted of seven or eight notches, without any 

 indication where they should be divided. Taking them to be seven 

 they should read oi or «o, eu or tie. I am disposed to give the prefe- 

 rence to eu, but for the very insufficient reason that we have eu in 

 Ifeutini and in Balreudini, the foiTQ of the name of the Dal Riad 

 Scots, and in that of their leader Retjda, as given in the first chapter 

 of Bede's ' Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ' : see Plummer's 

 text and note, i. 12. 



" The name Meutini has abeady been brought into connexion with 

 that of Meuthi. The latter occurs early in the Life of St. Cadoc as that 

 of quidam religiosus Hilernensis, heremita Deo serviens, nomine Meuthi 

 (Welsh MSS. Society's 'Lives of the Cambro-British Saints,' p. 25). 



