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cares in contemplating the greatnefs of her 

 works ; he will certainly, find icope enough. 

 It's fituation, between the mountains and 

 Anglefea, renders it a convenient place from 

 whence travellers may with advantage be 

 able to vifit both. 



It's name is properly Caer-yn-Arfon, 

 which fignifies a fortified town in the dif- 

 tridt oppofite to Mona or Angelfea.* The 

 walls around the town are nearly entire, 

 and as well as the caftle, in their external 

 appearance, the fame as they were in the 

 time of their founder Edward I. They are 

 defended by a number of round towers, 

 and have in them two principal gates, en- 

 trances to the town. Over one of thefe is 

 a fpacious room which is the Town hall, and 

 in which the affemblies are frequently held. 

 The buildings are upon the whole pretty 

 regular, but the ftreets, as in all other an- 



* Ar fon, or Armon, means oppofite to Mona. 



tient 



