ty6 LLANGOLLEN TO CORWEN. 



the parifh church is dedicated, and from whom the 

 hall takes its name, was a Welfli faint, and held in 

 fuch veneration, that no fewer than fix churches 

 have been dedicated to him. He was the fon of a 

 prince of Powis, and the writer of the mod ancient 

 hiftory of Britain now extant. 



Looking back upon the country I had left, I faw 

 Callell Dinas Bran, and its accompanying rock, 

 Craig Eglw^^feg, at the head of the vale. The 

 latter forms from hence a very confpicuous ob- 

 jea. 



About half a mile beyond Llandyfilio, I clam- 

 bered to the top of a lofty hill on the left of the 

 road. I was confiderably deceived in its height. I 

 fancied that it extended no higher than the ridge 

 vifible from the road ; but I had no fooner attained 

 this, than I had another eminence before me : I per- 

 fevered, and found two others equally high beyond 

 this. 



From the jfummit of this eminence I had a view 

 of the whole \'^le and its various windings, with 

 its flill more ferpentizing river, immediately beneath 

 me. Caflell Dinas Bran was very evidently lower 

 than my prefent ftation. I could carry my eye 

 along the entire vale of Llangollen, and over the flat 

 country for many miles beyond, to the far diitant 

 mountains on the verge of the horizon^ ■• - .- 



*^I defcended to the road, and continued my jour- 

 ney. — Beyond the fourth mile-ftone, the vale began 



to 



