20 harlech 70 ca'm bychan. 



Cantref Gwaelod, 



The Lo%vland Hundred. The Welfli have yet tra- 

 ditions refpecling fe\ceral of the towns, as Caer 

 Gwyddno, Caer Ceneder, &g. Thefe walls were 

 built to keep out the fea. About the year 500, 

 v/hen Gwyddno Garan Htr, Gzvyddno ivith the high 

 Crozai^ was lord of this hundred, one of the men 

 who had the care of the dams, got drunk and left 

 open a flood-gate. The fea broke through with 

 fuch force, as alfo to tear down part of the wall, 

 and overflow the whole hundred, which, fmce that 

 time, has been always completely flooded. — Thus is 

 Cardigan Bay, (a principal part of which Cantref 

 Gwaelod formerly occupied,) for many miles fo full 

 of fhoals, as to render it extremely dangerous for a 

 veflel of any burthen to venture at all near the 

 Merionethfhire coafl:. 



