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elegance and majefty what I had before fo 

 much admired betwixt Bangor and Caer- 

 narvon. Snowdon was perfectly unclouded, 

 and his red fides brightened by the fun, 

 were feen gradually Hoping till they ended 

 in a point far above the tops of the adjoin- 

 ing mountains, each of which had it's 

 beauty in the difpofition of it's lights and 

 fhades, it's prominences and hollows. 



This ifland was, prior to the invafion of 

 the Romans, called Mon, which fignified 

 what is infulated or detached, and this they 

 latinized into Mona. The Britons called 

 X it alfo Ynys Dowyll, the Jhady I/land \ Ynys 

 Fon from it's iituation, and Ynys y Cedeirn 

 from it's heroes, or it's powerful and ce- 

 lebrated Priefts and Druids.* When re- 

 duced by the Saxons, it then, for the firft 

 time, received the appellation of Anglefea,, 



* Rowland's Mona Antiqua, p. 97. 



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