116 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



about two hundred years before by Cafwal- 

 lon, law hir to Segontium, or, as the Welfli 

 called it, Caer Segont, where it remained 

 about a century, till affairs becoming more 

 fettled in Anglefea, it was reftored to the 

 ifland by Roderic Mawr, Roderic the Greaf, 

 where it afterwards continued during all 

 the time of the Britifh princes.* 



Whilft I was at Caernarvon, I was in- 

 duced from curiofity, to attend fome of 

 the meetings of a curious kind or branch 

 of Calviniftical methodifls, who from cer- 

 tain enthufiaftic extravagancies, which they 

 exhibit, are denominated 'Jumpers. I will 

 defcribe them from an account of one of 

 their own countrymen, as my own obfer- 

 vations did not lead me to be fo minute as 

 he has been. " They perfuade themfelves 

 '* that they are involuntarily acted upon by 

 * fome divine impulfe; and becoming in- 



* Rowland's Mona antiqua, 149. 172. 



toxicated 



