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I bAcAr. This Í3 the name by wliich tlie crown of the head is known ;
and it is generally believed tliat talented men lose the hair off this part
of their head at an early age. The celebrated poet Carolan is represented
as a bnld-pated man in a print prefixed to Hardiman's Irish MinstreUy.