a character that neither Sir Thomas Elliott, a learned
antiquary, nor Mr. Lilly, master of St. Paul's school, could
make any thing out of it. Mr. Sammes may be right, who judges it
to have been _Punic_. I imagine if we call it Irish we shall not
err much. No doubt but what it was a memorial of the founders,
wrote by the Druids and had it been preserved till now, would
have been an invaluable curiosity."

Can you or any of your contributors give me any further information
about this inscription?

2. The Doctor continues,

"To make the reader some amends for such a loss I have given a
specimen of supposed Druid writing, out of Lambecius' account of
the Emperor's library at Vienna. 'Tis wrote on a very thin plate
of gold with a sharp-pointed instrument. It was in an urn found
at Vienna, rolled up in several cases of other metal, together
with funeral exuviæ. It was thought by the curious, one of those
epistles which the Celtic people were wont to send to their
friends in the other world. The reader may divert himself with
trying to explain it."

Has this inscription ever been explained, and how? Stukeley's book is by
no means a rare one; therefore I have not trusted myself to copy the
inscription: and such as feel disposed to help me in my difficulty would
doubtless prefer seeing the Doctor's own illustration at p. 31.

Henry Cunliffe.