{88a} “This castle (says an eminent author) is said to have been built by Gilbert, Earl of Clare, who lived in the reign of King Stephen; and Camden reports, that Richard, Earl of Clare, made Richard Fitz-Tancred governor thereof. It was one of those in the hands of the Flemings, when they first came into Dyvet, or Pembrokeshire.” {88b} These lines were frequently repeated by Dr. Johnson, whose partiality to inns is well known. {90} “This celebrated person was uncle to King Arthur, and son of a Prince of Wales. After being seated in the see of St. David sixty-five years, and having built twelve monasteries; after having been exemplary in the piety of these days, this holy person died, at a most advanced period of human life; having attained, as it is said, to the age of one hundred and forty-six years. He was buried in the cathedral church of St. David, and many years after canonized by Pope Calistus the Second.” Warrington’s History of Wales, vol. ii. p. 385. {91a} To whose son a MS. t. Elizabeth, quoted by Willis, p. 69, gives Owen’s monuments. {91b} Tan. Bib. Brit. {91c} Tanner, p. 720. {94} Pope Calistus, by whom David was canonized, had, it seems, raised this place to a rank second only to the pontifical city itself, in the meritorious efficacy of the pilgrimages made to it; having declared that two visits to St. David’s were equal to one to Rome:—this occasioned a proverbial rhyme in Welsh, which has been thus translated into Latin: Roma semel quantum, bis dat Menevia tantum. {95} Leland, Vol. V. p. 25. {96} For a description of these monuments, see Wyndham. {98} “From _Cwrwgl_: in Irish _Curach_. The Greenland boats are also made of laths, tied together with whalebone, and covered with seal-skins. In these slender vehicles they are said to be able to row upwards of sixty miles a day; and the tops being covered with skins, they resist the fury of every storm. For when a wave upsets them, the boat rises again to the surface of the water, and regains its equilibrium. When Frobisher first saw them, in 1576, he took them for seals or porpoises. In the voyages of the two Zenos, they are compared to weavers’ shuttles. They are used, also, in the islands of the North-Asian Archipelago, where the Russians call them _Baidars_; and are found to be of such practical use, that Lieut. Kotzebue, in his expedition along the American coast of the Frozen Sea, took with him boats of a similar construction, in order to ford any rivers that might obstruct his journey. Similar boats are used by the Samoides of Nova Zembla. They are also used in Labrador, Hudson’s Bay, and Norton Sound. They glide with almost inconceivable swiftness. The Arctic highlanders of Baffin’s Bay, however, have no method of navigating the water. They never even heard of a canoe.”—_Beauties_, _Harmonies_, _and Sublimities of Nature_, Vol. iii. p. 335. Second Edit. {101} Itinerary, Vol. V. p. 12. {102} Over the river Rhyddol.