ig2 CORWEN TO BALAw 



Four and twice ten fons were mine, 

 Us'd in battle's front to fliine; 



But low in diilb my fons are laid, 



' Nor one remains his fire to aid. 



Hold, oh hold, my brain, thy feat ; 

 How doth my bofo.'Ti's monarch beat ! 

 Ceafe thy throbs, perturbed heart ; 

 Whither would thy ilretch'd Itrings ftart I 

 From frenzy dive, and wild affright, 

 Keep my ftufes thra' this night*. 



Bala, 



T/jf Outlet of the Lakc^ is a market town containing 

 about two thoufand inhabitants. It confifts princi- 

 pally of one long and wide ftreet, and is fituated at 

 the bottom of a pool, the largefi in the country, 

 called Llyn Tegid, The Fair Pool. It is principally 

 noted for its manufacture of woollen (lockings, and 

 as the autumnal refort of grous (hooters. Lord 

 Lyttleton afiferts its celebrity for the beauty of its 

 women, and that he faw fome of the prettieft girls 

 here that he ever beheld. 



Near the town I paffed a lofty artificial mount 

 called Tommen y Bala, The Tiamdus of Bala. This 

 is fuppofed to have been of Roman origin, and to 

 have been formed here, with a fmall caftle on its 

 fummit, to fecure the pafs towards the fea, and to 

 keep the mountaineers in fubjedion. The Welfh 



* See the preface to Owen's tranflation of the Elegies of 

 Llywarch Hen. Jones's Welfli Bards. Vaughan's Merioneth- 

 ihire. Cairi). Reg. i. 192. 



taking 



