A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 189 



Leland's time, he fays, there was only " a 

 piece of a tower" left.* 



Mr. Warrington -\- fuppofes that this was 

 antiently called Bere Caftle, J which fome 

 of the hiftorians relate to have been in 

 Caernarvon (hire, and feated in the midft of a 

 morafs, inacceffible but by a finglecaufeway, 

 and not to be approached but through the 

 narrow and rugged defiles between the 

 mountains. This, at that time, the ftrong- 

 eft caflle the Welm poflefled, was taken 

 in 1283, by the Earl of Pembroke, after a 

 flight refiftance. 



A little to the fouth of the caftle is a 

 tremendous cataract, called Caunant mawr, 



* " Dolbadarn is on a rock betwixt two linnys. 

 " There is yetapece of a (sure, where Owen Gough, 

 *' brother to Lluelin, laft Prince, was yn prifon." 

 Leland's Itin. V. 44. 



t "Hiftory of Wales, 517. See alfo Carte's Hif- 

 tory of England, II. 194, who quotes Chron. T, 

 Wikes and Annal. Trivet. 



-A corruption probably of Peris or Berts Caflle. 



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