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lysis was undertaken with several similar names ; after which 

 the author proceeded to a rapid scrutiny of names of baro- 

 nies, townlands, and towns — noticing in particular, as wholly 

 or partly of Norse derivation, Rathgoiman, Slaghtmanus, 

 and Ballyvedra, alias IVeatherstown, near Waterford. — The 

 last class of Irish names analysed was that of islands. Se- 

 veral instances were adduced of insular localities derivable 

 from some one of the three Norse words for island — ey, 

 holm, and kalfr — the distinctive meanings of which were 

 explained. The name of a locality, in particular, off the 

 south coast of Iceland, called " Irishman's Islands," was 

 explained from the sequel of the tradition of Leif, before 

 cited. 



The author closed his paper by recommending to the 

 antiquary some attention to the neglected literature of the 

 North, as a means not only of accumulating information, but 

 of correcting error ; and concluded by adducing the follow- 

 ing examples of error, corrected by a comparison of speci- 

 mens found in different countries : — " ' The short sword, 

 or dagger,' with which King, in his account of Richborough, 

 has equipped a Roman bagpiper, would still maintain its 

 belHgerent masquerade, had not the discovery of a more per- 

 fect specimen in Scandinavia proved it to be the more appro- 

 priate appendage of a pipe ; and certain figures, published 

 by Pennant, which were deified in Sweden, might have long 

 enjoyed their sanctity, had not the subsequent discovery of 

 more perfect specimens in Denmark desecrated them into— 

 knife-handles." 



Dr. Anster, on the part of Dr. Luby, F.T.C.D., read a 

 letter of the late Rev. Charles Wolfe, author of the lines on 

 the burial of Sir John Moore. The letter, or rather frag- 

 ment of a letter, had been found by Dr. Luby among the 

 papers of a deceased brother, who was a college friend of 

 Wolfe and of Mr. Taylor, to whom the letter was addressed. 



