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to the received opinion, conjectures that it 

 has been one of the Druids' confecrated 

 high places of worship, and never intended 

 for a place of defence. In the inclofure, he 

 fays, is a barrow of the kind which Dr. 

 Stukely calls a long barrow, and afcribes to 

 the fepulture of an Arch-Druid.* I how- 

 ever am inclined, from the circumftances 

 mentioned by Edward Llwyd, Mr. Pennant, 

 and other able writers (without having feen 

 it myfelf) to credit the other opinion, for 

 from them there feems every evidence of 

 its having been a Britim fort. 



About nine miles from Conwy ftands 

 the pleafing little village of Aber, the con- 

 fluence. Here I found a comfortable little 

 Inn, which from its fituation near Penmaen 

 Mawr, may be a very convenient place to 

 afcend that mountain from, to fuch as wifh 



* See a paper of the Governor in Archaeol. of the 

 Society of Antiquaries, III. 303. 



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