[88] Leland, Vol. V. p. 25.
[90] For a description of these monuments, see Wyndham.
[91] “From Cwrwgl: in Irish Curach. The Greenland boats are also made of laths, tied together with whale-bone, and covered with seal-skins. In these slender vehicles they are said to be able to row upwards of sixty miles a day; and the tops being covered with skins, they resist the fury of every storm. For when a wave upsets them, the boat rises again to the surface of the water, and regains its equilibrium. When Frobisher first saw them, in 1576, he took them for seals or porpoises. In the voyages of the two Zenos, they are compared to weavers’ shuttles. They are used, also, in the islands of the North-Asian Archipelago, where the Russians call them Baidars; and are found to be of such practical use, that Lieut. Kotzebue, in his expedition along the American coast of the Frozen Sea, took with him boats of a similar construction, in order to ford any rivers that might obstruct his journey. Similar boats are used by the Samoides of Nova Zembla. They are also used in Labrador, Hudson’s Bay, and Norton Sound. They glide with almost inconceivable swiftness. The Arctic highlanders of Baffin’s Bay, however, have no method of navigating the water. They never even heard of a canoe.” Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature, vol. iii. p. 335. Second Edit.
[94] Itinerary, Vol. V. p. 12.
[95] Over the river Rhyddol.
[97] Near the town of Aberystwith, in the year 1795 or 1796, a very fine coral stone was found, washed up from the sea, by an exciseman. It is now in the possession of Mr. Charles Hall, of Aller, in Hilton parish, Dorsetshire; is extremely fine on one side, near two inches in diameter, rather flat, but with some convexity. The late Dr. Pulteney, of Blandford, allowed it to be the finest specimen he had ever seen. Its colour is a yellowish white, its filaments are finely curved, and very uneven on the surface.
[100] The additions to Camden, 1695, suppose this Bishop Idnert.
[111] Called in Latin, Vaga.
[112] See an excellent account of the woollen manufactory in the seventh chapter of Aikin’s Tour through North Wales.
[114] See Pennant’s Snowdonia, p. 89, and likewise Wilson’s excellent View of Cader Idris.