$4 
CAV Da Crass I. 
the tip of the former *. This laft quotation is not 
only curious, as being an evidence of the fimplicity 
of ancient manners, but it almoft proves to a de- 
monftration that cats are not aborigines of thefe 
iflands; or known te the earlieft inhabitants. The 
large prices fet on them, (if we confider the high 
value of fpecies at that time +) and the great care 
taken of the improvement and breed of an ani- 
mal that multiplies fo fait, are almoft certain proofs 
of their being little known at that period. 
* Sir Ed. Coke in his Reports, mentions the fame kind of 
punifhment anciently for killing a fwan, by fufpending it by 
the bill, &c. Vide, Cafe des Swannes. 
+ Howel dda died m the year 948, after a reign of thirty- 
three years over South Wales, and eight years over all Wakes. 
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