24 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Flintfhire. In the place itfelf I obferved 

 nothing deferving attention ; the furround- 

 ing country is pleafant, and the caftle, 

 which fbnds at the eaft end of the town, 

 commands a fine and extenfive profpedt 

 towards the River Dee and the County 

 of Chefter. 



This building, which at prefent coniifts 

 of little more than fragments of the walls 

 and keep, is fituated in the grounds of Sir 

 Stephen Glynne Bart. It has been an ex- 

 teniive building of much ftrength, fituated 

 on a confiderable eminence and furrounded 

 by a double ditch. 



ten broad, and feventy in circumference. It con- 

 tains near 160,000 acres of land, and 32,400 inha- 

 bitants ; is divided into five cantreds or hundreds, 

 and contains twenty-eight parifhes. It has one 

 city, and four market towns. There is a hundred 

 about ten miles in length and fix in breadth belong- 

 ing to this county, fituated between thofe of Den- 

 bigh and Salop. 



The 



