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Ptolemys, and other Egyptian relics, have heen dug up from 
time to time in Cornwall. In 1850, two bronze bulls were 
discovered in making a deep cutting, in the town of Penryn. 
They are evidently representations of the Egyptian God 
Apis. Even so lately as 1853, a bifrontal bust of the God 
Isis, was turned up in making an excavation in the town of 
Exeter. It is extraordinary, that although Cornwall and the 
Scilly Islands, as we are assured, had been resorted to from 
very remote times by the Phoenician merchants, chiefly for 
tin and furs, in exchange, as Strabo tells us, for pottery, 
metal implements, and salt, that they should have left no trace 
of themselves or their language in this island. In Ireland, 
on the contrary, they are supposed to have left us their 
gold ring money, and a great variety of articles in gold and 
bronze. It is also a curious coincidence, that the mining 
districts of England and Wales, after having been vacated 
by the Phoenicians, should have been subsequently occupied 
(as Mr. Thomas Wright has shewn), by an immigration from 
northern Gaul, who introduced the Armoric language of the 
Bretons into these localities, where it is at this day the 
vernacular of the lower class and the peasantry. The Druid 
religion appears to have been towards its close confined to 
this people ; and when it was driven out of northern Gaul, its 
last stronghold was in Wales, and the neighbouring island of 
Anglesey. But this is a garrulous digression, which I have 
no right to inflict upon you, especially after enduring such a 
dull paper on a dry subject, with so much considerate 
indulgence. For this great kindness, I beg you, therefore, 
to accept my grateful acknowledgments. 
In a discussion which followed the reading of this Paper, 
Mr. W. Harrison, of Bipon, stated that a fine specimen of 
gold ring money had been found in the centre of a cairn of 
stones, in 1818, in a field on the Lindrick farm, close by 
