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to examine the curious remains at the top. 

 From the village, a deep and romantic glen 

 runs upwards of a mile amongft the moun- 

 tains, at the extremity of which is a cata- 

 ract, which precipitates itfelf from a height 

 of more than fixty feet down the rugged 

 front of a rock. Thomfon's defcription 

 (eemed to apply extremely well to it: 



Smooth to the (helving brink a copious flood 



Rolls fair and placid; where colle&ed, 



In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep, 



It thundering (hoots, and makes the country round. 



At firfl an azure meet it rulhes broad ; 



Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls. 



And from the loud refounding rocks below 



Dafh'd In a cloud of foam, it fends aloft 



A Upary mift, and forms a ceaielefs fhovr er. 



On an artificial mount, not far from the 

 village, though long fince deftroyed, flood 

 once a cattle, the palace of .Llewelyn ap 

 Gryffydd, Prince of Wales.* 



* Powel's Hiftory of Wales, 325. Leland's Iti- 

 nerary, V. 45. 



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