ISkS A TOUR ROUND NOHTH WALES. 



formerly fo large as from it's fize to be cal- 

 led Bangor vawr, the great Bangor, to dif- 

 tinguifh it probably from Bangor-is-coed in 

 Flintfhire.* It is feated in a vale, from the 

 back of which arife the vaft mountains of 

 Caernarvonshire. From the churchyard is 

 an extenfive and beautiful profpeft of part 

 of Anglefea, with the town and bay of Beau- 

 maris. 



The moft antient hiftorical facl: that we 

 have recorded of this place is, that Conda- 

 gius, a king of Britain, who reigned about 

 800 years before the time of Chriil, erected 



Flintftrire. He fpeaks of its being watered by the 

 " Deva's wizard ftream," which flows under an ele- 

 gant bridge, of five arches. He fays that this was the 

 fite of the antient Roman ftation, Bouvium, that here 

 \vas the monaftry, 1200 of whofe monks were flain 

 by Ethelfred, and that this formed a part of the king- 

 dom of Powis! ! 

 * Cough's Camden, H. 549. 



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