258 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Spiritus tibi vult fpirat. 



LAUS TOTA TRI-UNI 



Omnla pro nthllo niji qu<s tribuebat egenis 



IJla valeni cum artes pereant et fcriptafatifcant. 



Not far from Llanedwen is the place 

 where Suetonius Paulinus, the Roman Ge- 

 neral, firft landed when he invaded this 

 Ifland, and put an end to the power of the 

 Druids. About a ftone's caft from the 

 more is a field, now called Maes Mawr 

 Gad, or Maes hir Gad, the field of the 

 great or long army, and a little to the eaft 



of it, juft on the more, is a place called 

 the Rhiedd, or the chief men's p oft. The 

 foot foldiers paffed over in flat-bottomed 

 boats, and the horfemen by fording and 

 fwimming, which appears to have been 

 fufficiently eafy, as the ftream is here ra- 

 ther narrow, and at low ebb the water is 

 even] now feldom above a fathom or two 

 in the deeper! part. 



Tacitus 



