“Whereas,”--you perceive the record begins with all the formalities of office,--“in the year of the world 1525, Noah began to admonish the people of vengeance to come by a generall deluge for the wickednesse and detestable sinne of man, and continued his admonition for 120 years, building an arke for the safeguard of himself and his family; one Cæsarea (say they), according unto others, Caisarea, a niece of Noah (when others seemed to neglect this warning), rigging a navy, committed herself, with her adherents, to the seas, to seeke adventures and leave the plagues that were to befall. There arrived in Ireland with her three men, _Bithi_, _Largria_, and _Fintan_, and fifty women. Within forty days after her arrivall the universal flood came upon them, and those parts, as well as upon the rest of the world, and drowned them all; in which perplexity of mind and imminent danger, beholding the waves overflowing all things before their eyes, _Fintan_ is said to have been _transformed into a salmon_, and to have swoome all the time of the deluge about Ulster; and after the fall of the water, recovering his former shape, to have lived longer than _Adam_, and to have delivered strange things to posterity, so that of him the common speech riseth, ‘If I had lived Fintan’s years I could say much.’” Well, “to make a long story short,” this same Fintan, who was converted into a _salmon_, for the sole purpose of accounting for his appearance on the same theatre with St. Patrick, is introduced to the saint, when, after a very diverting episode upon his _submarine_ adventures, a miracle, of course, is to be wrought; and, anon, we have the contemporary of _Noah_, and of _Patrick_, at once a _salmon_, a _dolphin_, and a _man_, renouncing his attachment to the _waters_ and to the _boat_, and devoutly embracing Christianity!!! The anachronism committed in the instance of the _Goban Saer_ was precisely of the same character! and the very name assigned him, which is that of a _class_, not of an individual, exposes the counterfeit! _Gobhan Saer_ means the _Sacred Poet_, or the _Freemason Sage_, one of the _Guabhres_, or _Cabiri_, such as you have seen him represented upon the Tuath-de-danaan cross at Clonmacnoise. To this colony, therefore, must he have belonged, and therefore the _Towers traditionally associated with his erection_ must have been constructed anterior to the Scythian influx. But we are not left to such inferences to determine the point. A more substantial ally, the imperishable landmarks of history stand forward as my vouchers. To this hour the two localities,--whereon the Tuath-de-danaans had fought their two decisive battles with the _Fir-Bolgs_, their immediate predecessors in the occupation of this island,--one near Lough Mask, in the county Galway, and the other near Lough Arran, in the county Roscommon, are called by the name of _Moy-tura_, or more correctly, in Irish, _Moye-tureadh_!