To this, the only remaining one of these formidable objections, adduced by the doctor against our apostle's existence, we answer, that Fiech lived and composed this hymn some time after St. Patrick's death, in the 120th year of his age, and 60th of his apostleship. Now supposing Fiech to have lived to the 84th year of his age, and to have composed this hymn in 600, seven years after his master's death, which he so circumstantially relates in the poem; Fiech must consequently have been no more than about 17 years of age when our saint commenced his mission here. Where, or whence, then, except by divine revelation, or from St. Patrick himself, or from the revelation of others, could his disciple derive his information with respect to St. Patrick's parents and ancestors, who lived in a foreign country? or sacred Tours, in Gaul, the place of our saint's nativity? or his original name Succoth? or his voyages and travels by sea and land, after his escape from servitude in Ireland? or his insular retreats or studies under the spiritual guidance of St. German of Auxerre? &c, &c. &c. Now, Fiech very justly informs his readers, that all these transactions, wrought before he was born, and in a foreign country, during the first 60 years of his great master's life, were ascertained in _skelaiv_, (STORIES,) as in the first stanza; or Fiadhaid, _testified to us_, as he says in the sixth stanza of his poem, the only two places were Fiech appeals to others for the foreign actions performed in the early period of St. Patrick's life: of whom, though there were many lives written and published during his existence, yet it is uncertain whether Fiech obtained his account from written or oral documents, for either may be denoted by the Irish word _Scealaw_ (stories.) The term by which the translator of this hymn into Latin has rendered it, may also denote either oral or written information. In English, too, the word _history_ often imports oral narration: thus Pope says: "What _histories_ of toil could I declare, But still, long-wearied nature wants repair." INNUIN PATRAIC. I. Genair Patraic i nem Thur, (1) Asseadh ad fét hi scëlaibh, Macan sé m-bliadharn decc An tan do bhreth fo dheraibh. II. Succat a ainm hitrubhradh Cidh a atair ba fisse, Mac calpuirn mic Otide Ho Deocain Odisse. (2) III. Baisë bliadhna bi foghnamh Maise doine nïs tomledh Bitar le cothraighe, (3) Ceathar trebha dia fognadh. IV. As bert Uictor fri gniadh Milcon, teseadh far tonna Forruibh a chois for sind leic Maraidh dia aes ni bronna. V. Do faidh tar ealpa uile (4) De mhuir, bo hamhra reatha Comdh fargaibh la _Gearman_ Andeas an deiscort leatha. VI. An-innsibh mara toirrian Ainis indibh, ad rimhe, Lëghais cannóin la _Gearman_ Is eadh ad fiadhad line. VII. Do cum n-Erenn dod fetis Aingil _de_ hi fithis, Menic it chithe ifisibh Dos mcfed arithisi. VIII.