head," overlooklug the important fact that the penguin has a black head. a ,qir George l'eckham, who published in 1583 a work on the discoveries of Sir Humphrey (;ilhert, quotes the evidence of Ingram, aud gives the Madoc legend in much its present form? He was k, llowed by Dr. IAwyd, who left manuscripts, which were used hy Dr. Powel in his history of 5VMes. a According to him. 5Iadog-sought adventures by sea, sailing west, and leaving the cost of Irelaud to the north. He saw many strange things in an uuknown land, at which in the course of time he arrived? This land "must needs he some pt[rt of Nova Hispania or Florida. Whereupon it is manifest that that country was h,ng before hv Brytaines discovered, afore either Columbus or Alnericus espntius led anic Spania'dcs thither." Though the COlnihon folks ha added much that is fabulous, "sure it is that there he [Madoc] was." He cites Lopcz de Gomara to prove that in Mexico at the coining of the Spaniards the cross was revered, and explains the almost entire disappearance of the Welsh settlers by the paucity of their numbers. The most interesting fact in this string of assertions, is that there was a general tradition extant of the sailing of Madoc. Powel considc's that the hVelsh must have ltmded in Mexico, and cites "Pengwin," "Corroeso, " "Bryton,"'; "(;wyndor, " as "Brytish or hVclsh words, which doo manifestlie shew that it was that counttie which Madoc inhMfited." Hakluyt simply'adopted I'owel's version.

Sir Thomas Herbert, a member of the Pembr&e family, took Llwyd's story and added to it further embellishments, s for which he fails to We us any authority. It is as usual supposed that he had access to manuscripts which have perished? He appeals to evident traces of the Welsh in America, to British words, amongst which he gives " cralewen, hey," "11wynog, "wy, calaf," "bar, "trwyn," "main," "tad,'.' and many more, '� ttpparently relying on

Madoc, 158. 'A true tl,orte of the late ,liscoeries and possession taken in the right of the. {'roune of England of the New Fonnd Landes by that vali;umt an,l worthye gemleman, ir llunffrey Gilbert, Knight,' by G.P. 15S& 4to. : ' tlistorie of Cambria,' by l)r. D:tvid Powel. 1584. 4 Madoc, 27. a .ura?oa, island in the West In,lies. s 'ape Breton, some hunting, Is of miles kont Mexico. It is uncertain to what place this rcbrs. s 'Travels into Akica and Asia the ;lat.' D;34.

A supposed collection in Raglan t'astle, which was htnmed in the Civil Wa "White rock, heaven, fi,x, egg, quill, laa,l, nose, mother; lhther."