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nostras [Lavatera arbor ea. Linn.] in great plenty, also 

 Crithmum chrysanthemum, [Inula crithmoides. Linn.,] 

 Limonium vulgare [Statice limonium, Linn.,] Hyacinthus 

 stellar is vernus pumilus [Scilla verna, Huds.,] Filicc ma- 

 rina, &c. [Asplenium marinum, Linn.,] and a kind of 

 Tithymalus {q. an Tith. marinus vulgaris?) This island 

 hath in it a small chapel, consecrated to St. Margaret, 

 from whom also the island is denominated. On the 

 sand there are found those small Conchce venerce striates, 

 of which the country people make themselves hat-bands. 

 The sea- swallows they there call spurs, and the razor-bills 

 are called Megugs [a name by which the common guille- 

 mot is still known in Pembrokeshire] about Tenby and 

 St. Covin's. This name elegug some attribute to the 

 puffin, and some to the guillem ; indeed they know not 

 themselves what they mean by this name. Prom Tenby 

 we rode to Kidwelly, through Laughern, where we forded 

 a river. There are standing the walls of a fair castle, 

 belonging to Sir William Russell. After travelling on 

 two miles farther, we saw them burning cockle-shells, 

 thereof to make lime. The manner thus. They make 

 an hole in the ground, therein they put furze, upon that 

 wood, upon the wood small stone coal, and then a layer 

 of cockle-shells, and so shells and coals, S.S.S.* and then 

 put fire to them ; these burnt, make excellent lime. Here 

 are the ruins of an old castle belonging to the Lord 

 Annesley. In this country they dig two sorts of coals, 

 the one they call stone coal, not fit for smiths, the other 

 ring coal, which is fit for their use. At Tenby they told 

 us of a rock, which was lately anew discovered, six or 

 seven leagues into the sea, remote from thence, whither 

 of old the townsmen of Tenby were wont to repair for 

 fishing, which did then much enrich the town, where there 

 is excellent fishing. This rock, at low water, lies, in 

 some places, not above seven or eight fathoms under 

 water, it is supposed to be larger than Caldey Island ; it 

 lies in the center of a triangle, whose angles are Worms- 

 head Point, Caldey Island, and Lundy. 



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