172 RUTHIN TO LLANGOLLEN. 



in the fixteenth century, calls it " an old and ruynous 

 thing *." 



Vale of Llangollen. 



In order that I might fee the beauties of the vale 

 of Llangollen to as great an advantage as poffible, 

 I determined to walk round it. This led me through 

 a circuit of about eleven miles. — I croffed Llangollen 

 bridge, and went along the road leading to Ruabon 

 and Wrexham, on the north fide of the river. The 

 icenery in this direction was pretty, but from the 

 lownefs of the road it had nothing particularly in- 

 terefting. The mofb beautiful profpecls were thole 

 that I had by looking back towards the town. In 

 thefe the cafllc, from its great elevation, formed a 

 very confpicuous feature ; and in many places the 

 Dee added confiderable beauty to the fcene. — I 

 paiTed Trevor Hall, the family feat of the Lloyds, 

 feated on an eminence above the road. 



I had proceeded fomewhat more than four miles 

 when I turned to the right, along a road which led 

 over the Dee at Pont y CyfTyllte. Near this bridge 

 I faw the columns of the famous aqucducl formed 

 for conveying the water over the river Dee and the 

 vale of Llangollen. At the time I was here there 

 were eleven erected : they were of flone, and fquare, 

 and the two that flood in the bed of the river were 

 each about a hundred and twenty feet high. From 

 a tablet on one of them I copied the following in- 



* Worthines of Wales, 127. 



fcription^ 



