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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
fying deep or low, because they inhabited for the most part a plain 
encompassed by hills. 
Whether the name on the stone be that of an individual or of a 
nation, it certainly is, says Mr. Bray, of British origin. 
"The inscription, ,, Dr. Ferguson says, " is remarkable as being 
all in Roman capitals — a criterion thought to bespeak a higher 
antiquity than where capitals and minuscales are intermingled, as 
is the case in most of the i bi-literals ' of South Wales." (Pres. 
Royal Irish Academy, Nov. 29th, 1873.) 
Hiibner has given only the Roman inscription in page 10 of his 
recently published work, Inscriptions Britannia Christiana, 1876, 
and appears not to have been able to obtain a drawing of the 
Ogham inscription upon the same stone, of which he knows 
neither the form nor dimensions, remarks, "In angulo litterse 
CelticaB scripts sunt, quarum imaginem nancisci non potui. 
Formam lapidis depictam non habui mensuramque eius ignoro. 
S. Ferguson, Archseol. Camb. sec. iv. 5, 1874, p. 92 et I. Rhys, 
ibid, p. 173, cf. p. 334 adn. Is mihi ectypum misit litterarum, 
quod hie repetendum curavi. Litterarum Celticarum has tautum 
. . . NABARR . . . 
Rhys legit, diverse a religuis; ut mihi significavit per litteras. 
Idem lapide denuo inspecto filli potius quam fili legendum putat." 
On the reverse side are the letters G. C, which Mr. Bray pre- 
sumes may stand for Galba Csesare. But I can see little to induce 
us to follow Mr. Bray in this, except in his quoting from Shake- 
speare the following lines : 
" Figures pedantical, these summer flies 
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation : 
I do forswear them." 
