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of the journey of William Botoner* — who is also known 

 in history as William of Worcester — there must in the 

 fifteenth century have been Gannets breeding on an island 

 rock on the north coast of Cornwall, which at the present 

 day goes by the name of " Gulland Rock." Botoner, 

 whose journey seems on this occasion to have extended 

 from Bristol to St. Michael's Mount on the French coast, 

 after mentioning the islands of Edystone, St. Michael, and 

 Ushand (Ushant), goes on to describe one called Pentybers, 

 in these words : — 



" Pentybers-rok, maximus scopulus, in aqua Severn 

 scita ex parte occidentali portus de Padistow ac castri 

 Tyntagelle per 4 miliaria, et distat a firma terra per unum 

 miliare, et ibi nidificant aves vocatse ganettys, gullys, see- 

 mowys, et cseterse aves marinse." 



This Pentybers was almost certainly the same rock which 

 now goes by the name of the Gulland, situated on the north 



* " Itinerarium sive Liber Rerum Memorabilium," Willelmi Botoner 

 Diet, de Worcestre, Ex. cod. autographo autoris in bibKotheca Coll. Corp. 

 Christi. Cant. No. 210. Edidit Jacobus Nasmith, Cantabrigise, 1778 (p. 111). 

 Botoner was born in 1415 and died in 1482 ; the Itinerary is supposed to 

 have been written in 1468. Besides Pentybers, Botoner describes other 

 islands. Of Trescoe, in the Scilly Islands, he writes : " Insula Rascow 

 pertinet Abbati Tavystock, continet in longitudine 3 miliaria, et in latitudine 

 3 miliaria, inculta, cum cuniculis [rabbits] et avibus vocatis pophyns 

 [puffins] ;" and of another island : "non est poi^ulata, nisi silvestres herbas, 

 aves vocat mewys [sea-mews] Kermerertes [Cormorants] et Katones 

 [ ? Ratones] et muscae, id est mowses." 



