Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the beaches near Abermennyferry in the isle, Graphalium marinum | Diotis maritima, Cass.,| and a kind of Leu- . cojum |Matthiola sinuata, R. Br.,| both elegant plants. We found on the sea-shores, near Llandwyn, a pretty shell covered with prickles or bristles,* which the Welch call mermaids heads ; abundance of them are thrown up there, all along the sands towards the fretwm. Upon the coasts of Llandwyn are found a pretty small kind of Conche veneree striate ; on all the shores hereabout are cast up elegant small Cochlee neatly coloured. We lodged at Carnarvon Saturday and Sunday, May the 24th and 25th. Here also I found that species of gera- nium [rodium maritimum, Sw.| mentioned in Prest- holm. Near Carnarvon remain still some ruins of an old town, which the Welch call Caer-Segon, 1. e. Segontium of the ancients ; there is a little chapel, with a well close by it, dedicated both to St. Elyn, as 1s also the river fast by, called the Saint’s River ; these are about a quarter of a mile south of the town. ‘There is a chapel of ease in Carnarvon, close to the town wall; the parish church is half a mile out of town, whereabout old Segontium stood. We were told a legend of one St. Byno, who lived at Clenogvaur, and was wont to foot it four miles in the night to Llaynhayrne, and there, on a stone in the midst of a river, to say his prayers; whereon they show you still the prints of his knees; his man, out of curiosity, followed him once to the place, to see and observe what he did. ‘The saint coming from his prayers and espying a man, not knowing who it was, prayed that if he came with a good intent, he might receive the good he came for, and might suffer no damage ; but if he had any ill design, that some example might be shown upon him ; whereupon presently there came forth wild beasts and tore him in pieces. Afterwards, the saint perceiving it was his own servant, was very sorry, gathering up his bones, and praying, he set bone to bone, and limb to * Now well known to be the Echinus.