HOLY LAND.

Ramsey Island, near St. David's Head, is said to have been inhabited by so
many saints, that no less than twenty thousand are stated in ancient
histories to lie interred there. Near this place are the rocks styled the
Bishop and his Clerks, which, says an ancient author "preache deadly
doctrine to their winter audience, such poor sea-faring men as are forcyd
thether by tempest, onelie in one thing they are to be commended, they
keepe residence better than the rest of the canons of that see (St.
David's) are wont to do."

W.H.

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ANCIENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.

After the Britons retired into Wales, it was enacted that no man should
guide a plough that could not make one; and that the driver should make
the ropes of twisted willows, with which it was drawn. It was usual for
six or eight persons to form themselves into a society for fitting out one
of these ploughs, providing it with oxen, and every thing necessary for
ploughing; and many curious laws were made for the regulation of such
societies. If any person laid dung on the field with the consent of the
proprietor, he was by law allowed the use of that land for one year. If
the dung was carried out in a cart in great abundance, he was to have the
use of the land for three years. Whoever cut down a wood, and converted