256 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



and is a place extremely dangerous in the 

 navigation of large veflels, which muft 

 confult the critical feafon, and be con- 

 ducted by a fkilful pilot. 



In this Ifland the princes of North Wales 

 refided, from the time of Roderic Mawr, 

 in the ninth century, for near four cen- 

 turies, till the reign of Llewelyn the laft 

 prince.* Their palace was at AberfFraw. 

 I have been told that fome of it yet re- 

 mains, forming part of the walls of a barn. 

 It was in this palace that the celebrated 

 code of Laws, founded by Howel Dda, 

 Howell the good, about the year 940, was 

 conftantly kept. 



About three miles from the place at 

 which I landed, I patted Llanedwen, the 

 village where Henry Rowlands, the learned 

 author of Mona Antiqua Reftaurata, was 

 interred. He was inftituted to the vicar- 



* Rowland's Mona Antiqua, p. 172. 



age 



