A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 69 



CHAP. IV. 



FROM HOLYWELL TO ST. ASAPH. ROMAN 



PHAROS VALE OF CLWYD ST. ASAPH CATHE- 

 DRAL MIRACLE MORTUARIES EXCURSION 

 TO RHYDDLAN BATTLE AT MORFA RHYDDLAN 

 CASTLE A SIEGE ODDLY RAISED STATUTE 

 OF RHYDDLAN ABBEY DISERTH VILLAGE 

 AND CASTLE ANECDOTE OF SIR ROBERT POUN- 

 DERLING. 



' r ~pHE road from Holywell to St. Afaph 

 is rugged, but pleafant. This coun- 

 try abounds in lead mines, and I pafled 

 fome very confiderable ones about a mile 

 from Holywell. I foon after got a fight of 

 an antient circular building, in form not 

 much unlike a windmill, which ftands on 

 the fummit of a hill, in the pariih of Whit- 

 F 3 ford, 



