tt> A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



ford, betwixt the road and the fea. This 

 Mr. Pennant,* begging his friends would 

 not deem him an Antiquarian Quixote for 

 fo doing, conjectures to have been a Roman 

 light-houfe, conftru&ed to direct the navi- 

 gators to and from Deva along the difficult 

 channel of Seteia Port us. -\- 



About two miles from St. Afaph, I en- 

 tered the celebrated vale of Clwyd, and, 

 favoured by a morning ferenely bright, the 

 whole fcene from the fide of the hill ap- 

 peared to the greatefl advantage. Towards 

 the fouth flood Denbigh, with the matter- 

 ed remains of its caftle crowning the fum- 

 mit of a rocky fteep in the middle of the 

 vale ; and on the north, clad in its fober 

 hue, I obferved the caltle of Rhyddlan. 

 The intervening fpace was enlivened with 

 meadows, woods, cottages, herds, and 



* Pennant's Tour, Vol. II. p. i. 

 t The Eftuary of the Dee. 



flocks 



