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VIII. fays, " The beft wood of Cairnar- 

 " vonfhire is by Glinne Kledder (Glyn 

 " LlwydawJ and by Glin Lhughy (Glyn 

 " LfygivyJ, and by Capel Kiryk (Cape I 

 " Curig), and at Llanperis." In the 

 time of Howel Dha, Howe! the good, who 

 was made Prince of Wales in the year 94.0, 

 the whole country muft have been nearly 

 covered with wood, for it is ordered in 

 the Welm laws, founded by him, that 

 " whoever cleared away timber from any 

 " land without the confent of the owner, 

 " he mould, for five years, have a right 

 " to the land fo cleared -, and after that 

 " time it mould return again to the 

 S owner."* Thefe mountains alfo for- 

 merly abounded in deer,-)* which even 



continued 



* Wotton's Leges Wallica?. 



t In hac (Merioneth) et Arvonia cervorum et ca- 

 prearum maxima in excehls montibus cernitur mul- 

 titude. Hum. Lhwyd's Comment. 54. Leland 



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