l66 RUTHIN TO LLANGOLLEN. 



Llangollen. 



From thefe elegant and beautiful fcenes I wan- 

 dered into the dirty, ill built, and difagreeable town 

 of Llangollen. The ftreets are narrow, and all the 

 houfes are built of the dark fhaly flone fo common 

 in North Wales. The fituation of this place is, 

 however, truly delightful to the admirer of nature : 

 it (lands on rocks that overlook the Dee, and is 

 furrounded by high and bold mountains. 



The h'idge, which confifls of five narrow and 

 pointed arches, was originally ereded about the 

 middle of the fourteenth century, by John Trevor, 

 bifhop of St. Afaph. It is built on the rock, and 

 in a place where it would almoft feem impoffible to 

 fix a foundation fufHciently firm to withfland the 

 furious rapidity of the current, which has worn the 

 fhelving m.affes to a black and gloffy polifh. During 

 late years it has undergone confiderable repairs. 



In the church I found nothino" deferving; of atten- 

 tion. The name of the patron fciint, who has left 

 behind him a legend worthy even of the Koran, is 

 pretty enough, and of no great length ! CoHen, ap 

 Giuynawc^ ap Clydawc^ ap Cowrda, ap Caradaivc 

 Freichpasy ap Llyr Meirim, ap Einio?i Urth, ap Cu^ 

 nedda V/Iedig */ — From the church-yard, the lofty 

 mountains, on one of which ffands Callcll Dinas 

 Bran, and the v/oody banks of the Dee, whofe . 



* Eonncdd y Salii(5l. Welfh Archeology, il. 52. 



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