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REBUS HIBERNICIS.

VOL. V.

CONTAINING

The URAIKEFT, or Book of OGHAMS, a Fragment,
with a Tranflation and Explanation.

An ESSAY on the ORIGIN of ALPHABETIC WRITING.
TERMS of the BREHON-AMHAN LAWS explained,

&c. &c. &c.

ORIGIN of the FEUDAL SYSTEM of GOVERNMENT.

Libera per vaccuum pofui veftigia princeps,
Non aliena meo preffi pede. Qui fibi fidit

Dux, regit examen.

aut tineas pafces taciturnus inertes,

Aut fugies Uticam, aut vinctus mitteris Ilerdam.

HOR.

By COLONEL CHARLES VALLANCEY, L.L.D.

Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Societies of Antiquaries of London,
Edinburgh, and Perth; Member of the Royal Irish Academy,
and of the Phil. Soc. of Philadelphia, &c.

ALSO,

ANECDOTES OF CHESS IN IRELAND.
By JOSEPH C. WALKER, M. R. I. A.

DUBLIN:.

Printed and fold by R. MARCHBANK, No. 11, Dame-street.
M, DCC, XC.

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I TAKE the liberty of dedicating to your Lordship the following work, and hope I fhall not be thought guilty of prefumption in wishing to draw your attention to its publication.

It was written under the opinion of your Lordship's approbation, and under the fanction of your name it is to carry its principal recommendation to the world.

To whom could a work of this kind be fo properly addreffed as to your Lordship, who poffeffes a mind equally capable of the deepest speculation, as of the most active exertion; equally conversant with polite literature, as with the more abstracted ftudies, and whofe knowledge of the Northern