He will place every one according to his merits,
He is the principal strong tower of the Kingdom.[757]
Fig. 413.—A Galley (Khorsabad). From Nineveh (Layard).
Figs. 414 and 415.—British (Channel Islands). From Barthelemy.
As Iona means dove, the culver on the hackney’s back (Fig. 415) is evidently St. Columba, and the crowned Babe in Fig. 414 is in all probability that same “spriggan on Dowdy’s back,” or Elphin, as the British Bards speak so persistently and mysteriously of “liberating”. In Egypt the spright is portrayed rising from a maculate or spotted beast, and in all these and parallel instances the emblem probably denoted rejuvenescence or new birth; either Spring ex Winter, Change ex Time, the Seen from the Unseen, Amor ex Nox, Visible from Invisible, or New from Old.
