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CHAP. xiir. 



JSXCURSION FROM RUABON TO BaNGOR- IsCOED| 



Wynn/Iay. — Teaut'iful Scene at Nant y Bele.- — Overton.— Conje8uref 

 on the original Planting of. Tezu Trees in Church Tunis. — Bati- 

 gor Ifcoedj the olJe/i Monajlery in Britain. — j^cccunt of Gildtfs 

 Nennius, and of Tyfilio, the Authors of tiuo very ancient fiif.or'iei 

 of Britain. 



From Ruabon, I wandered into the grounds of fir 

 Watkin Williams Wynne, baronet, at 



Wynnstay, 



Thefe grounds are brought clofe up to the viU 

 lage ; they are well wooded, and about eight miles 

 in circumference. I obferved here feme immenfely 

 large oak, alh, and birch trees : the trunk of one of 

 the oaks was near fifty feet in girth in the fmallell 

 part, 



I afcended, by its well-ftaircafe, to the top of a 

 handfome, lately ered:ed ftone column, of very con- 

 fiderable height. I had entertained hopes that from 

 thence I fliould have had a fine view of the fur- 

 rounding country, but was difappointed ; the prof- 

 pe6t was fufficiently extenfive, but in jio degree in^ 

 ^erelling. 



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