[63] Draw and Hitchin’s Cornwall.
[64] See also p. 216.
[65] In Hugh Miller’s “Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland,” edit. 1858, pp. 256, 257, will be found some stories of the flight of the “herring drove” from the coast of Cromarty, which are analogous to this.
[66] See “Death Tokens.”
[67] “There appeared in the north-east the frustrum of a large rainbow; all the colours were lively and distinct, and it was three times as wide as the arch of an ordinary complete rainbow, but no higher than it was wide. They call it here, in Cornwall, a weather dog; but in the Cornish language, Lagas-auel,—that is, the weather’s eye,—and pronounce it a certain sign of hard rain.”—Borlase’s Natural History of Cornwall.
[68] Hone’s Table-Book.
[69] In pul; meaning in mud.
[70] Davies Gilbert’s “Cornwall.”
[71] Vol. iii. p. 309.
[72] Letter from William Peter, Esq. of Harlyn, to Davies Gilbert, vol. iii. p. 178.