| of the Casa de las Monjas at Uxmal. | | | | [23] The valley below the Alligator is in the possession of a race | | of Welsh colonists who emigrated from Wales about the year 1802. | | At that time they did not speak English, and for many years | | refrained from learning that language. | | | | The church services are held in their town of Granville. | | | | These colonists were prosperous and contented. The majority of | | them bore the names of Griffith, Price, Lewis, and others which | | are usual in the seaboard counties of Wales. | | | | The adjacent high lands are called the Welsh hills. | | | | [24] “Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley,” pp. 19. | | | | [25] Second Annual Report of the Geological Survey of the State of | | Ohio, 1838, pp. 269. | | | | [26] The earthworks thrown up between Gallipoli and the Gulf of | | Saros during the Crimean war in 1854–1855 had the appearance of | | considerable antiquity when I saw them nearly a quarter of a | | century afterwards in 1878. | | | | [27] According to Hakluyt, Madoc “prepared certaine ships with | | men and munition, and sought adventures by seas; sailing West and | | leaving the coast of Ireland so farre North, that he came vnto a | | land vnknowen, where he saw many strange things. | | | | Of the voyage and returne of this Madoc there be many fables | | fained, as the common people do vse in distance of place and | | length of time, rather to augment than to diminish: but sure it is | | there he was.... This Madoc arriving in that Westerne countrey, | | vnto the which he came in the yere 1170, left most of his people | | there, and returning backe for more of his owne nation, | | acquaintance and friends to inhabit that faire and large countrey, | | went thither again with ten sailes, as I find noted by Gutyn Owen. | | | | I am of opinion that the land whereunto he came was some part of | | the West Indies.” |