372 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



calamities which his country fuffered, be- 

 came odious to the people, and the Britifh 

 writers load him with all manner of crimes, 

 and reprefent him as fuch a monfter of 

 iniquity, that it was not fit for him to go 

 out of the world like other mortals, there- 

 fore they invented thofe various kinds of 

 death, that he might appear to depart 

 from hence under the fevereft marks of 

 divine vengeance. 



I have been informed, that there are 

 fome fmall remains on the top of Dinas 

 Emrys, but that they are very inconfi- 

 derable. I did not myfelf clamber up the 

 rock to examine them. 



A little farther in the vale is a pool, in 

 a charming fituation, called Llyn y Dinas, 

 the pool of the fort> taking it's name froiTk 

 being near Dinas Emrys, and abounding 

 in large and well-flavoured trout. Two 

 miles beyond this is Cwm Llan, a roman- 

 tic hollow, running into the mountains on 



the 



