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Protestant, wherever else peoples derived from Celtic 

 stock exist, they are firm adherents to the Church of 

 Rome, the Church essentially of the emotions. And 

 although Protestant, and therefore of a church that 

 became such as a protest of reason and liberty of 

 conscience against ecclesiastical domination, Wales, 

 true to her old instinct, deepened the lines of her 

 dogma, inclining to the sombrest and least in- 

 dividualistic of the forms of Protestantism, and 

 importing into her religion an emotionalism charac- 

 teristic of the church she left, rather than of that to 

 which she came. The bitter antagonism of the 

 Welsh towards " popery" may perhaps be illustrated 

 by the mutual repulsion of similar polarities. For, 

 speaking ecclesiastically, Rome was defrauded of 

 Wales, and it remains an anomaly on the page of 

 religious history. 



I was much interested to note the land-birds on 

 Llanddwyn Island, cut off as they were by the sandy 

 warren from the more productive country about and 

 beyond Newborough. They consisted of one pair 

 of Starlings, with a brood of young ones in a crack 

 of the wall of the ruined church ; a family of Common 

 Wrens, already out in the dead wood in the garden 

 patch ; a pair of Linnets that appeared occasionally ; 

 and a marauding Pigeon that used to visit the 

 kitchen garden ; these were all, except the Wheatear, 

 which was plentiful up to the last rock of the 

 headland. 



Observing the latter, it was easy to understand 

 how one species would replace a similar one, should 

 the latter for any reason fall out. The Wheatear is the 



