[316] Not a river, but an isolated rock in the Frith of Forth, near the town of North Berwick, called "The Bass." Some think it is the river Lusas, in Hampshire.
[317] The Caledonian forest; or the forest of Englewood, extending from Penrith to Carlisle.
[318] Variously supposed to be in Cornwall, or Binchester in Durham, but most probably the Roman station of Garionenum, near Yarmouth, in Norfolk.
[319] V.R. The image of the cross of Christ, and of the perpetual Virgin St. Mary.
[320] V.R. For Arthur proceeded to Jerusalem, and there made a cross to the size of the Saviour's cross, and there it was consecrated, and for three successive days he fasted, watched, and prayed, before the Lord's cross, that the Lord would give him the victory, by this sign, over the heathen; which also took place, and he took with him the image of St. Mary, the fragments of which are still preserved in great veneration at Wedale, in English Wodale, in Latin Vallis-doloris. Wodale is a village in the province of Lodonesia, but now of the jurisdiction of the bishop of St. Andrew's, of Scotland, six miles on the west of that heretofore noble and eminent monastery of Meilros.
[321] Exeter.
[322] Or Ribroit, the Brue, in Somersetshire; or the Ribble, in Lancashire.
[323] Or Agned Cathregonion, Cadbury, in Somersetshire; or Edinburgh.
[324] Bath.
[325] At Fordun, in the district of Mearns, in Scotland.—Usher.