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fake of the Orthography of the Irifh Names, which are 
writ differently from what is now ufual. 
We alfo took Figures of fome Variety of their Broaches , 
or Stiver and Brafs Fibula ufed by the Women to clafp 
their Koleriv , a Garment anfwering our Nightrails. 
But what we were mofl: diverted with, was their 
Variety of Amulets } many of which (if not all) were 
certainly ufed by the Druids, -and fo have been hand- 
ed down from Parents to Children ever fince. Some of 
thefe may be render’d in Englifh , 1* Snake-button. 2. 
Coch^knee Stone. 3. Toad-flone . 4. Snail-Jione. 5. Mole- 
Jlone. 6. Shomr-Jlorte } and 7. Elf- arrow. 
i- The Snake-button is the fame defer i bed in the Notes 
on Denbighjhire in Camden, by the Name of Adder-Beads : 
But there are of thefe great Variety, as to Colonr and 
Ornament^ infomuch, that betwixt Wales and the High- 
Lands, I have feen at leaft fifty differences of them. 
' In Ireland , though they are tenacious enough of all old 
Cuftoms, I could hear nothing of them : So I conclude, 
that either the Irifh had no Druids , or that their want 
of Snakes f ruff rated their advancing that Impoffure a- 
mongft the People : But there were but a few Places 
where we inquired \ and perhaps we may hereafter hear 
of them in other Parts of that Kingdom. Notonly the 
Vulgar, but even Gentlemen of good Education 
throughout all Scotland, are fully perfwaded the Snakes 
make them, though they are as plain Glafs as any in 
a Bottle. 
2. The Cock-knee Stone is an Echinites pilealus minor , 
of Flint } .which they firmly believe to be fometimes 
found in the Knees of old Cock } and a Fellow in Mul 
protefted to me ('though I was never the nearer believ- 
ing him) that lie had with his own Hands taken one of 
them out of a Cock’s Knee } and named two or three 
others, who had done the like. 
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