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so nearly as to throw a man unhurt upon the rock 

 who liappened to be on the bowsprit, and he was 

 the only one who was thus miraculously saved out 

 of a crew of sixteen ; the vessel was immediately 

 after dashed to pieces. The most elevated part of 

 the mountain is about seven hundred and fifty feet 

 above the sea, and there was a signal station here 

 in time of war : at present it is one of the telegraph 

 stations in the line from Liverpool to Holyhead, 

 the invention of Lieutenant Watson. 



Although Gogarth has its sides now washed by 

 the sea, it was formerly an inland mountain. Can- 

 trev Gwaelod, which is celebrated as a " most de- 

 licate vale, abounding in fruitfulness, and excel- 

 ling all other vales in fertility and plentifulness," 

 extended from Bangor Vawr to Gogarth, and in 

 breadth from Dygyvylchi to the point of Flint- 

 shire, which came up from Rhuddlan to Priest- 

 holme; in the upper end it reached from Llan- 

 vair fechan and Aber to the river Ell, which di- 

 vided Arvon from Anglesey, and Anglesey from 

 Flintshire. This river or strait flowed between 

 Priestholme and Penmon, and discharged itself 

 into the sea a great distance beyond Priestholme. 

 The district belonged to Helig ab Cilauawg, M'liose 



