2o8 BALA YO SHREWSBURY. 



Dr. William Morgan, who firfl: tranflated the 

 Bible into the Welfh language, was vicar of this 

 place. He was afterwards rewarded with the bi- 

 fhoprlc of Llandaff, and in 1601 with that of St. 

 Afaph. 



PiSTYLL RhAIADR, 



The Spout of the CataraSl, the moft celebrated water- 

 fall of this country, rufhes down the front of an 

 almoft perpendicular rock, that terminates a vale at 

 the diftance of about four miles from the village. 

 The vale is narrow and well wooded ; it is watered 

 by the little river Rhaiadr, which here conftitutes 

 the boundary line betwixt the counties of Denbigh 

 and Montgomery, and it affords many pleafmg and 

 beautiful fcenes. The upper part of the catarad, 

 when the fun fhines upon it, is vifible to a great 

 diftance ; and along this hollow its filvery and linear 

 appearance give an air of fmgularity to many of the 

 views. — Piflyll Rhaiadr is upv/ards of two hundred 

 and ten feet high j and for near two thirds of this 

 height, the water is thrown down the flat face of a 

 bleak, naked, and barren rock ; from thence it rages 

 through a natural arch, and betwixt two prominent 

 fides into the fmall bafon at its foot. The whole 

 fcene is deftitute of wood, but it has fo much fim- 

 ple grandeur, that trees would injure, rather than 

 heighten the general effedt. When vifited after 

 very heavy rain, a lingular occurrence is to be re- 

 Hiarked. The water in its defcent is obilru«^ed by 



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