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geley, a village near the coaft, on the other 

 fide of Orme's Head, about eighteen miles 

 diftant. He gives us an epitaph in the 

 church-yard, of which this is a tranflation: 

 " In this church -yard lies a man who 

 " lived three miles to the north of it." 

 But as a more certain evidence, he had 

 obferved, at low water, far from the clayey 

 banks, a long traft of hard loam, filled 

 with the bodies of oak trees tolerably en- 

 tire, but fo foft as to be cut with a knife 

 as eafily as wax. 



About a mile from Beaumaris, near the 

 feat of Sir Robert Williams, Bart, and not 

 far from the fhore, ftands the poor remains 

 of the houfe of Francifcan Friars, founded 

 by Llewelyn ap Jorweth, Prince of North 

 Wales, fometime before 1240, called Llan- 

 vaes, or the Friars. There is now fo 

 little of it left, that it forms only part of 

 the walls of a barn. The church was 

 dedicated to St, Francis. Here were in- 

 interred 



