BREHAR, one of the Scilly islands, lying almost
directly west of the land's end in Cornwall, about the
distance of 30 miles. It lies between the isles of Mi-
carlo, Guel, Trefaw, and Samson. It is the roughest
and most mountainous of them all, and not many years
since there were only two families in it, but now there
are 13. There are a few poor houses, called the town
of Brehar; and there are several barrows edged with
stone, in which they buried considerable persons in an-
cient times; besides many monuments of the DRUIDS.
Some are of opinion, that this with the rest made but
one island, which is the reason why so many antiquities
are now found in most of them.