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delineating the chest and body of the bishop in full canonicals, having 
one hand raised in the attitude of benediction, with outstretched 
thumb and two fore- fingers, and bearing on his left side a short cross. 
This figure is about three-quarter length, ending abruptly. The 
accompanying sketches of the crozier top and its ornamentation I 
3we to Thomas Drew, Esq., e.h.a. 
If we now proceed to examine the crook made for the crozier 
jf Clonmacnoise, whilst it belongs to a much more advanced state of 
iirt workmanship, and is of considerably later date, we still find 
nployed, as a leading decoration, a head projecting from the front of 
' le sta:ff. Eut it is not the head of a bishop ; it is intended either to 
: ipresent a monk, or is a bearded image of the Saviour. Underneath 
lis the artist has placed a small and perfect figure, in relief, of a 
eric, which we at once recognize bears certain resemblance to the 
irlier and ruder representation. It is the full-length figure of a 
itred Abbot ; in this also the hand is raised in benediction, and there 
, displayed a crozier, not a cross, with inturned crook, significant 
