Glamorgan, gave me the following exposition of these mysterious _Dogs of
the Sky_, or _Dogs of the Abyss_, whose aërial cries at first perplexed
as well as startled him. He was in the habit of traversing wild tracts
of country, in his profession of land surveyor and often rode by night.
One intensely dark night he was crossing a desolate range of hills, when
he heard a most diabolical yelping and shrieking in the air, horrible
enough in such a region and at black midnight. He was not, however, a
superstitious man, and, being an observant naturalist, had paid great
attention to the notes of birds, and the remarkable variations between
the day and night notes of the same species. He suspected these strange
unearthly sounds to be made by some gregarious birds on the wing; but
{483} the darkness was impenetrable, and he gazed upwards in vain. The
noises, meanwhile, were precisely those which he had heard ascribed to
the _Cwn Wybir_, and would have been truly appalling to a superstitious
imagination. His quick ear at length caught the rush of pinions, and, in
a short time, a large flight of curlews came sweeping down to the
heather, so near his head, that some of their wings brushed his hat.
They were no sooner settled, than the _Cwn Wybir_ ceased to be heard.
Mr. Young then recollected having noticed similar nocturnal cries from
the curlew, but had never before encountered such a formidable flying
legion of those birds, screaming in a great variety of keys, amidst
mountain echoes.

ELIJAH WARING.

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BARTHOLOMEW LEGATE, THE MARTYR.

An erroneous date, resting on such authorities as Mr. Hallam and Mr. J.