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whether any part of the building was re- 

 maining.* 



Camden -f- relates a ftrange circumftance 

 concerning the River Clwyd at its influx 

 into the fea. He fays that, " below the 

 " caftle, the river is difcharged into the 

 " fea, and though the valley, at the mouth 

 " of the river, feems lower than the fea, 

 " yet it is never overflown ; but by a na- 

 " tural, though an invifible impediment, 

 " the water ftands on the very brink of 

 " the {hore, to our juft admiration of the 

 " Divine Providence." If the marfh only 

 appears lower than the fea, without being 

 fo, there certainly feems no wonder at 

 all. 



* Tanner's Notitia. Mr. Brown Willis, in his 

 Survey of Bangor, p. 357, fays, it was .reported that 

 there was an abbey here, the religious of which were 

 of a military order. 



t Gibf. Camd. 688. 

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