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that variety which is always found where 

 there are woods and mountains : for though, 

 in the time of the Druids, this Ifland is 

 reprefented as being almoft covered with 

 wood, which formed one continued grove, 

 it has at prefent, very little. There are 

 a few plantations on the fouth-eaft coaft, 

 but excepting thefe I recoiled: no others in 

 the whole Ifland. 



It is a conjecture of Paulus Tovius, an 

 Italian writer of the fixteenth century,* 

 that Anglefea was once joined to the con- 

 tinent of Wales, but from the continual 

 working of the ocean, was, in the courfe 

 of time, fevered from it ; and that, for 

 forne while afterwards, the inhabitants of 

 Wales and Anglefea had a communication 

 by a bridge, till the breach became too 

 wide for fuch a paflage to be any longer 

 maintained. If this has ever been the cafe, 



* Defcriptio Britannia, lo. 



and 



