30 BARMOUTH TO DOLGELLE. 



'* r. The walls thereof are three miles high. 



2. Men go into it over the water; but 



3. Go out of it under the water. 



4. The ilccple thereof doth grow therein. 



5. There are more ale-hpufes than houfes *.*' 



Thefe five enigmas he folves in this manner : the 

 Jir/^, he fays, is explained by the mountains that 

 furround the place. The fccond implies, that on 

 one fide of the town there was a bridge over which 

 all travellers mull pafs ; and the third, that on the 

 other fide, they had to go under a wooden trough, 

 which conveyed M^ater from a rock, at a little dif- 

 tance, to an oyerfhot mill. For the fourth, he fays, 

 the bells (if plural) hung in a yew tree ; and the 

 lajl, that " tenements were divided into two or 

 more tipling-houfes, and that even chimney-lefs 

 barns were often ufed for that purpofe."-^! pre- 

 fume in this he alludes to the time in which fome 

 fair was held, for the fale and exchange of the 

 manufaftures of the place. None of thefe remarks 

 will apply at prefent, except the two firft. 



There are at Dolgelle very confiderable manu- 

 faftories of flannel, which, from the number of 

 hands neceiTarily employed, have rendered the place 

 very populous, comparatively with other Welfh 

 towns. The principal market for the goods is 

 Shrewfbury, but fo great a portion has of late been 

 bought upon the fpot, that the inhabitants have had 

 little occafion to fend to a market at fuch a dillance. 



^ Fuller's Worthies of Wales, p. 43. 



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