5© DOLGELLE TO MACHYNLLETH, 



found, and where there has once been a fmall cir- 

 cular fort *. 



When on the point of fetting out from Machyn- 

 lleth to Llanydloes, I v/as informed of a lofty catar- 

 act, near a pool called Llyn Pen Rhaiadr, The Pool 

 at the Head of the Catarad, about fix miles diftant ; 

 but, as the road lay entirely over the mountains, and 

 I was defu'ous to reach Llanydloes as foon as pof- 

 fible, I did not take the trouble of vifiting it. 



If I had not (that I might confine my attention 

 altogether to North Wales, and give to it all the 

 time I had to fpare) entered into a refolution not 

 even to fet my foot in the fouthern divifion of the 

 principality, I {hould have gone from Machynlleth to 



Aberystwyth, 



The Coriflux of the IJiivyth, diftant about nineteen 

 miles. This is now a celebrated fea-bathing place, 

 frequented by much company. — It has the remains 

 of a caftle, founded at the commencement of the 

 twelfth century by Gilbert Strongbow, but about 

 two centuries afterwards rebuilt by king Edv/ard I. 

 From hence I fliould have proceeded to an inn, 

 - about twelve miles off, called the Havod Arms, not 



* Camden. Vau^-han's Merionethfhlre, in Cam. Reg. i. 189. 



far 



