I may add that my own putting becomes “snatchier,” quicker and worse day by day; which again is testimony, if it is understood rightly, of the value of the slow, smooth stroke.

In fact I wos napped on the nod, But the way I got woke wos a wunner.

Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of the produce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.

It is now well known that the Irish employed pseudonymy in their Latin writings of that period. Some famous examples are the Pseudo-Augustinian De Mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae, the Pseudo-Isidorian De Ordine Creaturarum, and the Cosmographia of the so-called Aethicus Ister, ascribed by H. Löwe to Vergil (Fergil), an eight-century Irish bishop of Salzburg.