A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. S*T 



fore confulted with his magicians or learned 

 men, as to what manner he ought to pro- 

 ceed ; " they advife that he muft find out 

 " a child which had no father, and with 

 " his blood fprinkle the ftones and mortar, 

 t and that then the caftle would fland as 

 " on a firm foundation. Search was made, 

 " and in Caer Merdhin * was Merlin 

 " Emrys, or Ambrofe-f- found; he being 



" hither 



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* The City of Myrddin or Merlin, ftill called 

 Caermarthen, in South Wales. 



i Ambrofius ille ex Virgine nobili (patris nomine 

 data opera fuppreflbj natus; ob mirabilem viri in 

 mathematicis reliquifque omnis generis difciplinis / 

 cognitionem a rudi vulgo pro incubi filio habebatur, / 

 Lhwyd Comment. Britan. 65. Merlin Ambrofius, 

 who was born at Caermarthen, was the fpn of a 

 nun, the daughter of a king of South Wales. Joneis <- 



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Weljh Bards, 23. According to Spencer, Merlin's 

 father was a Roman conful, and his mother a nun, ^ 

 v. the daughter of Pubidius, King of Mathraval, who, y "* "I 

 to fave her life and honour, invented the ftory of 



his 



