396 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
of those very beautiful but mendacious poems which Macpherson 
published in the early part of the reign of George III.” 
The stone in the garden of the vicarage of Tavistock is about 
four feet high, and eighteen inches broad on the inscribed face. It 
is nearly of the same proportion from top to bottom, but has been 
fractured a little at the summit, and has a somewhat rounded top. 
The inscription on the stone is perpendicular, in three lines, and 
reads, ‘‘Dobunni Fabrii fili Ennabarri,” according to Mr. Bray 
and Dr. Ferguson, but the author has failed to perceive the EN 
at the commencement, or the terminal letter I of this word. 
During the summer of 1873, Dr. Ferguson, of Dublin, visited 
and took a cast of this stone, on which Mrs. Ferguson detected 
some Ogham writing. On his return to Dublin, Dr. Ferguson 
carefully deciphered the markings. The result of his examination 
he published in a paper read before the Royal Irish Academy, and 
it is embodied in the following abstract : 
“The Ogham inscriptions of South Britain (understanding at 
present Wales and Devonshire) are distinguished from those of 
Scotland and Ireland, by being almost always accompanied by 
corresponding legends in the Roman character, and so, like the 
Rosetta stone, carrying their keys within themselves. | 
‘‘Prior to 1870, the values of almost all letters of the South 
British Ogham alphabet had been ascertained in this manner. 
There remained only P, F, L, D, which were problematical, and 
B, which had not been found at all, to be identified. 
‘‘In December, 1870, it was pointed out that the equivalent of P 
was found in a certain combination of Ogham digits on the monu- 
ment to Zurpill at Crickhowel. F and L might be inferred from 
fil, the Oghamic equivalent of fvdiz on the Tralony legend, as also 
F and D from their use in the name ( Doft a ceos) on the Tycoed 
monument, of which a cast was made in 1872, disclosing hitherto 
unobserved portions both of the Oghamic and of the correlative 
Latin inscription. 
‘‘The identification of B alone was required to complete the in- 
dependent key to this class of Ogham characters. This has been 
accomplished by the discovery of an Ogham inscription on the 
angle of the well-known Dobunni monument from Buckland 
Monachorum, now preserved at Tavistock. 
‘The leading characters of the name enabarri of the Latin text 
are still legible in the Ogham nabarr, and the Oghamic representa- 
