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limb, and the man became whole again, only the part of 

 the bone under the eyebrow was wanting ; the saint, to 

 supply that defect, applied the iron of his pike-staff to 

 the place, and thence that village was called Llanvil- 

 hayrne ; but for a punishment to his man (after he had 

 given him Llanvil-hayrne) he prayed (and obtained his 

 prayer) that Clenogvaur bell might be heard as far as 

 Llanvil-hayrne church yard, but upon stepping into the 

 church it was to be heard no longer ; this the people 

 hereabout assert with much confidence, upon their own 

 experience, to be true. This saint was a South Wales 

 man, and when he died, the South Wales men contended 

 with the Clenogvaur men for his body, and continued the 

 contention till night ; next morning there were two biers 

 and two coffins there, and so the South Wales men car- 

 ried one away, and the Clenogvaur men the other. 



Monday, May the 26th, we went to Llanberis, and so 

 to Bethkellert. By the way side, near the upper end of 

 Llanberis pool, we saw growing wild, Papaver erraticum 

 luteum CambrO'britannicum [MeconojQsis Cambrica, Vig.,] 

 and near the stone tower there, a species of Orchis pal- 

 mata [^Orchis albida, Sw., Gymnadenia albida, Rich.,] 

 with an odorate flower like to Monorchis. We passed a 

 very bad way, by two great pools of water. The Welch 

 have a dish which they call Llumery, made of oatmeal, 

 almost after the same manner of the amylum of the 

 ancients. 



In the lakes hereabout, viz., at Llanberris, Bettus, 

 Festiniog, there is a fish taken called torgoch, [red- 

 belly, the charr, Sahno salvelims^ blackish upon the 

 back, red under the belly, {unde nomen,) of which they 

 tell some fabulous stories, as that three sons of the church 

 brought them from Rome, and put them into three lakes, 

 to wit, Llanberis, Llynumber, and Travennyn, into each 

 two. They are taken in each lake but at one time of the 

 year, and at a different time in the several lakes. At 

 Llanberris they say that they are there taken only in the 

 night, and that when it is not moonshine. An old man 



