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at the end of the third, upon his declaring 

 that they were all deftroyed.* 



Whilft I was flaying at Beddgelert, I 

 found myfelf one evening almoft devoid 

 of employment, and the moon {hone fo 

 beautifully bright, that I was tempted to 

 ramble alone as far as the bridge. There 

 never was a more charming evening. The 

 fcene was not clad in it's late grand colours, 

 but now more delicately (haded, and ar- 

 rayed in fofter charms. The darkening 

 lhadows of the rocks caft a gloom around, 



* Strutt's chronicle II. 67 Will, Malmfb. Ho- 

 linfhcd's Chronicle, I. 225. Whether they were 

 all deftroyed or not at this time, we are not certain ; 

 for after the battle of Colefhill, in the reign of 

 Henry II. Giraldus Cambrenfis, Lib. II. c. 10. p. 

 873, relates, that .a young Welfhman, who had 

 been fiain, was difcovered attended by his faithful 

 dog, who remained by the corpfe the whole time, 

 without food, and defended it from being the prey 

 of birds and wolves, 



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