The second, likewise of brass, and found at Friar’s Walk, near Cork, is now in the possession of a Mr. Corlett.--Inscription upon one side, “The Lord Jesus.”--Upon the other, “Christ the King came in _peace_, and the light from the heaven was made life.” You will please observe here, that he does not say the _Word_ was made life, but the _Light_ was made life. The third is of silver, and the inscription means, “Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ--the Lord and the Man together.” The originals of these inscriptions are all in Hebrew, and the likenesses which accompany them, although on different metals, appear almost copies one of another: whereas the cruciform figures herein already inserted, have no one feature of correspondence whatsoever with them, but prove themselves, on the contrary, in every particular, an antecedent generation.[603] [Illustration] As everything else appertaining to the history of the Round Towers has already been explained, I shall now account for the difference of appropriation noticed at p. 6. Having been all erected in honour of the _Budh_, they all partook of the phallic form; but as several enthusiasts personified this abstract, which, in consequence of the _mysteries_ involved in the thought and the impenetrable veil which shrouded it from the vulgar, became synonymous with _wisdom_ or _wise man_, it was necessary, of course, that the Towers constructed in honour of each should portray the distinctive attributes of the individuals specified. Hence the difference of apertures towards the præputial apex, the crucifixions over the doors, and the absence or presence of internal compartments.[604] Those venerable piles vary in their elevation from fifty to one hundred and fifty feet. At some distance from the summit there springs out a sort of covering, which--accompanied as it sometimes is with a cornice, richly sculptured in foliage, in imitation, if you must have it, _præputii humani_, but such also was the pattern of the “nets of checker-work and wreaths of chain-work,” which graced “the chapiters which were upon the top of the two pillars belonging to Solomon’s temple”--terminates above in a sort of sugar-loaf crown, concave on the inside and convex on the outside. Their diameter at the base is generally about fourteen feet through, that inside measuring about eight, which decreases gradually, but imperceptibly, to the top, where it may be considered as about six feet in the interior. The distance of the door from the level of the ground varies from four to twenty-four feet. The higher the door the more irrefragable is the evidence of the appropriation of the structure to the purposes specified. The object was two-fold, at once to keep off profane curiosity and allow the votaries the undisturbed exercise of their _devotions_; and to save the _relics_ deposited underneath from the irreverent gaze of the casual itinerant.