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Near Tenby Castle is a little island, which hath a 

 chapel upon it, dedicated to St. Catharine ; it is ascended 

 by stone stairs cut out of the rock. 



There is a castle at Kidwelly; the town is in a ruinous 

 condition. On the sandy meadows near the town, I 

 observed six sorts of rushes, among which that of 

 Harlech [Juncus acutus, Linn.,] and Juncus acutus mari- 

 timiis [/. maritimus, Linn.] Near Aberavon, on the 

 sandy meadows by the sea- side, I saw growing. Cony z a 

 helenitis foliis laciniatis {^Cineraria palustris, Linn.] 

 A bird breeds there supposed to be the Hamantopus mag- 

 nitudine inter vanellum et gallinaginem minorem media 

 [Black- winged stilt ? Himayitopiis melanopterus^ of a dark 

 grey on the head and back, a light grey on the breast 

 and under the belly, the five or six first feathers of the 

 wing above of a dark or fuscous colour, near black, un- 

 derneath more light or dunnish, the rest of the feathers 

 party-coloured, the tops white, the bottom dark. The 

 tail and feathers near it waved transversely with black and 

 white lines, like the feathers of some turkeys, as likewise 

 are the tips of some of the feathers of the wing above the 

 remiges. The feathers upon the top of the back, between 

 the shoulders and the tail, are some of them almost 

 white, which, when the bird flies, represent a triangle of 

 white. The bill of this bird is in figure like a snipe's, but 

 not so long, pro ratione, by a great deal, of a dark red at 

 the base, black toward the end ; the legs long and red, 

 the ungues black; it hath the posticus ; these she stretches 

 backward in flying, which make amends for the shortness 

 of the tail; it makes a piping noise. 



Friday, June the 13th, we proceeded on to Landafle ; 

 by the way we saw a stone lying near Margam, near half 

 a mile off*, in the way to Newton, with this inscription, 

 "PvMPEivs Carantorivs;" whether or no there had been 

 another line of letters was uncertain. At Newton we 

 saw the well called St. John's Well, which ebbs and flows 

 (as the people generally there affirm) quite contrary to 

 the sea; but we found that it ebbed as the sea ebbed, and 



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