188 THE GANNET 



he commences by a somewhat needless comparison between 

 the Bernicle Goose and the Gannet, but there were other 

 authors in whose minds there was some confusion between 

 these two birds.* 



12. The next testimony is that of Bishop Leslie's " De 

 origine, moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum,"! already referred 

 to under Ailsa Craig (p. 78). John Leslie or Lesley was 

 Bishop of Ross, and died in 1596, in which year James 

 Dalrymple's translation of the " De origine," which is here 

 quoted from, was made. J 



TRANSLATION. 



" The Water of fforth is ane arme of the Sea, and a place 

 quhairwnto the sey flowis and ebbis, it rinis by Lawdien, 

 and diuides the North frome Laudien, in quhilke is a gret 

 and infinit multitude of Diuerse kyndes of fishe, quhair 

 lykwyse excepte thir fishe, may be seine ane foul, at othir 

 tymes thoch maist rair, zit in this ane place maist frequent, 

 for quhen in the Sey selfe ar mony lies and Inches nocht 



* m'z., Butler, in the political satire of " Hudibras," 1663 ; O'Flaherty, 

 "Description of Connaught," 1684; and Leigh, "Natural History of 

 Lancashire," 1703. 



t Roma, 1578. 2nd edition, 1675, p. 15. 



J " The Historie of Scotland, wrythen first in Latin by Jhone Leslie, 

 and translated in Scottish by Father James Dalrymple." Mr. Quinton 

 informs me that it was printed by the Scottish Text Society, 1884-91, 

 under the editorship of Father E. G. Cody, from the Dalrymple MS. 

 It does not apj^ear to be very literal. 



