The Abridger of Camden's Britannia makes mention of a little Iſle within this Town, where Pope Gregory the Fourth erected an Epiſcopal See; but at preſent, there is no ſuch Place to be found: nor is it probable it can have been. ſwallowed up by the Sea, there being no low Grounds, but a high mountainous Shore all along that Part of the Iſland. He farther ſays, that, among the Hebrides, generally reckoned Forty-four in Number, was the Iſle Iona, lying between Ila and Scotland, and called by Bede, Hy or Hu; and that, there was a Biſhop's See erected in Sodore, a ſmall Village, from which all the Iſlanders took the Name of Sodorenſes, being all contained in his Dioceſs. But nothing is more certain, than that this Opinion is erroneous; for the Biſhops of Man, do not take their Title of Sodor ſrom the Iſland ſo called, but ſrom the Church at Peel, called Eccleſia Sodorenſis, dedicated to our Saviour (Σωτὴρ). This is not only maintained by Archbiſhop Spotſwood, and the moſt judicious Antiquaries, and Hiſtorians, but by the Tradition of the Natives themſelves: Nor do I ſee any Rea-
