iss ruthin to llangolleit. 



Castlll Dinas Bran 



Is fituated on a high, and fomcwhat conical hill, 

 about a mile from Llangollen. This hill is fo very 

 {leep on ail fides, towards the fummit, as to render 

 the walk to the caftle not a little fatiguing. — The 

 building has been about a hundred yards long, and 

 fifty in breadth ; and it formerly occupied the whole 

 crown of the mountain. From its extremely ele- 

 vated fituation it muft have been a place of vaft: 

 ilrength. On the fide which is leaft fteep it was 

 defended by trenches cut through the folid rock. 

 The prefent remains confilt of nothing more than a 

 few fliattered walls. The views from hence on every 

 fide are very grand. Tov.-ards the eail I could look 

 along the whole vale of Llangollen, through v/hich 

 the Dee was feen to foam over its bed of rocks j 

 and, beyond the vale, I could fee all the flat and 

 highly cultivated country that extended for many 

 miles. Juft beneath me lay the town of Llangollen. 

 Tow^ards the v/eft I overlooked the vale of Crucis, 

 and the mountains beyond it were all expoled, their 

 dark fides agreeably varied with wood and meadow. 

 On the north-wefl I was much (truck with the 

 lingular appearance of a vail rock called Craig 

 Eglwyfeg, The Eagle's Rock, from a tradition that 

 formerly a pair of eagles had their nefb, or aery, 

 here. Leland has miftaken this rock for that on 

 which the caflle ftands, where he fays, " there 

 ipredith every yerc an egle. And the egle doth 



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