DOLGELLE TO MACHYNLLETH. 49 



the obferver in tliis direction, by intervening moun- 

 tains, till he is arrived within about a mile of it ; 

 and it is firfl feen on a hidden turn of the road at a 

 little diftance from the river. 



Machynlleth *. 



I croiTed the Dovey, and fliortly afterwards ar- 

 rived at Machynlleth, a neat, and a much more 

 regularly built town than moft in Wales. The 

 town-hall is a plain unadorned ftrufture ; and the 

 church (a common fault in this countjt'y) is white- 

 wafhed. From the church-yard there is a pretty 

 view along a green and meadovv^ vale. — Machyn- 

 lleth is a place of fome trade, and it has an air of 

 greater opulence than mod of the Wellh towns. 



An ancient, building, conftrucled of the thin ihaly 

 ftone of this country, and now converted into flabies, 

 v/as pointed out to me as that in which Owen 

 Glyndwr fummoned the chieftains of Wales- in the 

 year 1402. He was here ackno^^ledged their prince, 

 and as fuch proclaimed and crowned f. 



It is highly probable that this tow^n was the flte of 

 Maglona^ the 'principal Roman flation in Montgo- 

 inerylliire. Near Penallt, about two miles diftant, 

 there is a place called Cefyn Caer, The Rid^e of the 

 City, where Roman coins have frequently been 



* This word implies the plaee near the river CyrMaeth, which 

 was the ancienc name for the Dovey. 



t Wynne's Hiftory of Wales, 331. Carte, n. 655. 



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