108 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



The cattle ftands upon a rock, two fides of 

 which are washed bv the river. Its archi- 



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tecture and pofition are truly grand, and 

 denote the fpirit and judgment of its foun- 

 der, Edward I. From each end of the 

 town walls, fronting the river, a curtain 

 terminated with a round tower ran to fome 

 diftance into the water, the more effectually 

 to prevent the approach of an enemy from 

 thence. The heap of rubbim at prefent 

 left, nearly oppofite to the end of the caflle, 



tion, for it has been, I think, clearly proved, that 

 Conovium was fituated where Caer Rbun (a corrup- 

 tion from Caer Hen, the old city} now ftands, on the 

 weft fide of the river, about five miles higher up. At 

 this place, now an infignificant village, many Ro- 

 man antiquities have, at different times, been dif- 

 covered j and out of the ruins of this, Camden con- 

 jectures, that Edward built the new town, at the 

 mouth of the river, which was from thence called 

 Aber Conwy, the conflux of the Conwy, It is now 

 generally called Conway, See Camden s Britqnnlca 



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