Mr. RAYV Itineraries. i8i 
not yet run much to Decay, belong- 
ing to the Earl of Northumberland. 
This Country is thinly inhabited, 
very bleak and barren. 
Augujl the 1 6 th, We rode in 
Sight of the Holy IJland (n), but 
the Tide ferved iis not to pafs over. 
Here 
(n) When Mr. Ray^ with Mr. WlllifeU made 
a Second Simpling Voyage (as he expreiles it) into 
thefe Parts in the Year 1671, he remarked as 
follows j to wit, “ July the 2 2d, We rode from 
“ Cheviot., or rather Waller or Wooler^ to the 
‘‘ Holy IJland., 9 Miles. Where we gathered, on 
‘‘ the Sea- Shore, under the Town, thofe Stones 
which they call St. Cuthherfs Beads, which 
‘‘ are nothing elfe but a Sort of Entrochi^ 
“ From the Holy IJland we rode over the Sands 
to Gofewick^ and fo on to Berwick^ 7 Miles. 
“ We refted at Berwick Sunday July the 23d ^ 
and in the Forenoon heard one Smithfon., Mini- 
“ Her here ; in the Afternoon we walked out to 
‘‘ Mcrrington to hear a Scottijb Sermon, in a very 
fmall Farifh Church. In the Holy IJland I 
N 3 found 
