George Borrow: The Man and His Books

by Edward Thomas

[{271g}] Dr. Knapp’s insertion.

[{271h}] It is doubtful if there was a chapel; no one remembers it.

[{272a}] Nanny Dallas is a mistake. No such name is remembered by the oldest inhabitants, and it seems certain that the woman Borrow met was Nanny Lawless, who lived at Simpson a short distance away.

[{272b}] Evan Rees, of Summerhill (a mile south-east of Roch).

[{272c}] Sger-lâs and Sger-ddu, two isolated rocky islets off Solva Harbour. The headlands are the numerous prominences which jut out along the north shore of St. Bride’s Bay.

[{272d}] Newgale Bridge.

[{272e}] Jemmy Raymond. “Remaunt” is the local pronunciation. Jemmy and his ass appear to have been two well-known figures in Roch thirty or forty years ago; the former died about the year 1886.

[{272f}] Pen-y-cwm.

[{272g}] Davies the carpenter was undoubtedly the man; he was noted for his stature. Dim-yn-clywed—deaf.

[{310}] “Athenæum,” 25th April, 1874.