[104] 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.
[107] The additions to Camden, 1695, supposed this Bishop Idnert.
[119] Called in Latin, Vaga.
[121] See an excellent account of the woollen manufactory in the seventh chapter of Aikin’s Tour through North Wales.
[123] See Pennant’s Snowdonia, p. 89, and likewise Wilson’s excellent View of Cader Idris.
[124] Mr. Pennant, in his Snowdonia, p. 397, edit. 1781, mentions, that there are brought annually to Salop “seven hundred thousand yards of web; and to Welsh Pool, annually, between seven and eight hundred thousand yards of flannel;” but he does not state the particulars whence he deduces his general estimate. I have quoted this passage from Aikin’s excellent chapter (vii.) on the woollen manufacture of North Wales, not having in my possession Mr. P’s. Snowdonia.
[128] First Walk through Wales.
[155] Dr. Fuller observes, “It would be more facile to find graves for as many saints, than saints for so many graves.”
[166] Gelert was given to Llewelyn by King John, in 1205.
[170] Evan Thomas worked in the copper-works at Aber Glaslyn, and lived at a place called Drwsycoed, about a mile and a half beyond Beddgelert.