310 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



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There are to the weft of Prieftholme 

 three iflands, each called Ynys Lygod, the 

 Moufe I/land ; and it appears to me that 

 Giraldus Cambrenfis * has miftaken the 

 name of this, whoa in calling it Ynys 

 Lygod, and faying, that in antient times 

 when pofTeiTed by Reclufes, who had left 

 the world to enjoy here religious folitude, 

 whenever the inhabitants quarrelled with 

 each other, they were immediately plagued 

 with fwarms of mice, which always quitted 

 them as foon as they had laid afide their 

 animofities. 



logy is well known, and the authenticity of his in- 

 formation from the Rev. Mr. Davies of Aber, who 

 formerly refided at Beaumaris, no one can doubt. 

 I thought it too curious and interefling a fubjecl 

 to be paffed over in filence, and my information 

 could not have been drawn from a more authentic 

 fource. 



* Itin. Camb. Auft. Sylv. Gir. Cambr. Lib. II. 

 c, 6, p. 868, 



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