116 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



liam the Conqueror,* in a fituation highly 

 proper, having a complete command of the 

 river, and by its vicinity to the flrong pafs 

 of Penmaen Mawr, enabling the king's 

 troops to occupy it on the leaft commo- 

 tion, thereby fecuring a road to the interior 

 of the mountains and to the Ifle of An- 







glefea. 



I am rather at a lofs to judge whether it 

 was this caftle or that of Diganvvy, about 

 X three miles north of it, that was called 

 Snowdon CaJUe. Leland,-)- indeed, in his 

 Collectanea, fays " The Caftel of Snowdon 

 t( is oftentymes put by a commen worde 

 " for Comvey" but feveral circumftances 

 have occurred that induce me rather to 

 fuppofe, that this was not the cafe, and that 



* Matt. Weftm. 371. Holinihed's Chronicle, II. 

 282. 



t Coll. dereb. Brit. 1.472. 



Diganwy 



