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MEMORIALS OF RAY : 



We proceeded from Bangor to Beaumaris. At Pen- 

 maen, three or four miles distant from Beaumaris, 

 towards Prestholm, mill- stones are digged up. An airy 

 of falcons, at a place we did not set down the name of, 

 near Holyhead. The teeth of the sheep are died yellow, 

 that feed on an hill called Trysillum, where some have 

 conjectured there are gold mines. At Llandwyn are the 

 ruins of a church, which seems to have been a very fair 

 one. From Penmaen-maur to Prestholm is a large paved 

 caussey, visible at low water, and the ruins of an old 

 castle still to be seen, at a very low spring-tide ebb, 

 between the two Penmaens. There are fir trees digged 

 up in the marshes here, and in Carnarvonshire. At a 

 place called the Priery, about half a mile from Beau- 

 maris, was found a stone coffin of one of king John's 

 daughters, whereof they now make an hogs trough.* 



Thursday, May the 2 2d, we went over to Prestholm 

 island, in which we took notice of the ruins of St. Sirian's 

 chapel ; the tower is yet standing. There groweth Hip- 

 poselinum [Smi/rnium olusatorum, Linn.] in great plenty. 

 Cochleria vulg. \ C. anglica. Linn.,] Crithmum \_C. mari- 

 timum, Linn.,] Beta marina [B. maritima, Linn.,] and 

 a small sort of Geranium [Erodium maritimum, Sw.,] 

 which I had before observed in the Isle of Man. In the 

 island (Prestholm) are bred several sorts of birds, two 

 sorts of sea-gulls, cormorants, puffins, so called there, 

 which I take to be Anas arctica clusij, razor-bills, and 

 guillems, scrays two sorts, which are a kind of gull. 



Saturday, May the 24th, we rode to Llandwyn, and 

 thence to Carnarvon. At Llandwyn we found Crithmum 

 chrysanthemum [Inula crithmoides, Linn.,] and vulgar e 

 [Crithmum maritimum. Linn.,] Hyacinthus autumnalis 

 minor, [Scilla verna, Huds. is probably the plant meant 

 by Ray,] Limonium vulg. [Statice limonium, Linn.,] and 

 a kind of Polgpodium [Asplenium marinum, Linn.] On 



* It is commonlj said, that the stone cofl3.n in which was laid the corpse 

 of Richard III after the battle of Bosworth-field, was afterwards used at an 

 inn in Leicester as a watering-trough. — G. S. 



