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inquiring with regard to monocular fifh, -which 
are faid by Giraldus Cambrenfis, to be found in 
the lakes of Snowden, and from whom I fhall 
tranfcribe the whole paffage : 
<{ In fummis autem montium idorum verticibus, 
« duo lacus reperiuntur, fua non indigni admirati- 
«< one : alter enim infulam habet erraticam, ad oppo- 
fitas plerumque partes errabundam ; alter vero miro 
“ & inaudito miraculo pollet, quia cum trium gene- 
“ rum pifcibus abundet, anguiliis, truths, & perchiis, 
« omnes in eo pilces monoculi reperiuntur, oculum 
“ dextrum habentes, & finifho carentes : h rei tarn 
« novae, tamque ftupendae rationem fcrupulofus ledlor 
« efflagitet, affignare non praefumo.” Giraldus 
Cambrenfis, lib. ii. cap. io.. 
This writer was Archdeacon of Brecknock, 
and attended Baldwin Archbifhop of Canter- 
bury, in a progrefs which he made in the year 
1188 through South and North Wales, to recom- 
mend a coliedtion for a crufade which was then in. 
agitation. 
We have no account of any part of England nearly 
fo ancient, Leland’s Itinerary having been undertaken 
only in the reign of Henry the Vlllth : it is not 
however merely the antiquity of the work, which 
fhould recommend Giraldus’s obfervations to the 
perufal of every Englifh reader ; they are at the fame 
time very entertaining, nor is the latinity contempt- 
able.. 
Giraldus hath in common with other ancient 
travellers been confidered as taking the liberties, with 
which they have been fo frequently charged. For my 
own. 
