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ERNARD DE MORLAS, monk of Cluni, is not to be confounded with the great Bernard his contemporary, Abbot of Clairvaux, and Saint in the Romih calendar. The place of his nativity is uncertain, and the years of his birth and of his death are alike unknown. He lived during the firt half of the twelfth century; he was born, according to one authority, at Morlaix, in Bretagne; according to another, at Morlas, in the lower Pyrenees; whilt a third gives his birth-place to England, and claes him with her illutrious writers (De illutribus Angliæ Scriptoribus). After even centuries of comparative forgetfulnes, the genius of two Englih cholars has revived a portion of his works; and hereafter his name will be bet known in that country, which may poibly poes his birth-place.