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with the old strange motion, but whither bound the 

 bird itself knew probably no more than I. 



As hard a question to solve was, ''Whence had it 

 come?" No Guillemots come to Llanddwyn during 

 the breeding season, and the nearest breeding stations 

 are, I believe, Puffin Island, twenty miles to the 

 north-east, and Holyhead, sixteen miles to the 

 north-west. 



Going up to inspect the larger cross on the head- 

 land, I found it to be inscribed with the word 

 "DWYNWEN," and seeing that this fair saint had. 

 to wait for the erection of her monument from some 

 time in the fifth century until the year of the Jubilee 

 of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, the author of 

 this graceful, if tardy, act of recognition, paid both 

 St. Dwynwen and her countrymen a doubtful com- 

 pliment in recording the fact upon it. The ruined 

 church in the hollow below is an earlier memorial. 



Dwynwen, daughter of Brychan Urth, and after- 

 wards to become tutelar saint of lovers, founded a 

 monastery in this place during the fifth century, and 

 here eventually she was buried. " Here were con- 

 stant lights kept," says the chronicler, u at the tomb 

 of this virgin saint, which brought no small gain to 

 the monks from the pious and superstitious people 

 who visited it from all parts of the kingdom in those 

 times of popery ; for the whole machinery of that 

 delusive church, and the juggling arts of mercenary 

 priests, were in this remote corner collected together, 

 and made use of to impose upon an ignorant and 

 misguided populace, ' 



The "juggling arts " consisted in the foretelling 



