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Harlech, 



Once the principal town in Merionethihire, is now 

 dwindled into an infignificant village, containing 

 not more than four or five hundred mhabitants. It 

 is in the parifh of Llanfair, and on the fea-coaft, near 

 Cardigan Bay : the houfes and caille are built on a 

 <:liff that immediately overhangs the marfh. Not 

 far from the caftle, there is an old rooflefs building, 

 once the town-hall j in which, however, the mem- 

 bers of parliament for the county continue ftill to be 

 ^le^ed. 



Harlech Castle. 



This venerable ftrufture is in tolerable preferva- 

 tlon. It is a fquare building, each fide meafuring 

 about feventy yards ; and has at every corner a 

 round tower. From each of thefe iflued formerly 

 a circular turret ; nearly all now deflroyed. The 

 entrance is betwixt two great rounders. The prin- 

 cipal apartments appear to have been over the gate- 

 way, in a building which projected into the court ; 

 and at each angle of this building there is yet left a 

 round tower. The caftle was defended on the eafl 

 fide by a deep fofs ; and its fituation, on the verge 

 of an almoft perpendicular rock, rendered it im- 

 pregnable in nearly every other part. — From the 

 marfh it is faid, except in fize, to bear a con- 

 fiderable refemblance to the caftle of Belgrade in 

 Turkey. 



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