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tended with danger, owing to the tides not 

 always leaving the fame level, but fre- 

 quently warning deep holes in the fand: 

 and it is not by any means fafe to attempt 

 this ford without the attendance of a guide. 

 Criccieth is a little Borough town, con- 

 tributory to Caernarvon, about three miles 

 diftant from Penmorfa, and fituated on the 

 north end of Cardigan Bay, and except the 

 few remains of its caflle, affords nothing 

 which can claim the attention of the Tra- 

 veller.* This is fituated upon a rifing 

 ground, at the end of a long neck of land 

 jutting into the fea. The entrance into it 

 is betwixt two rounders, which are fquare 

 within, and appear to have been the only 

 circular towers it has had, the others being 

 all fquare. There have been here two 



* Leland fays of it in his time, " At Crikith be a 

 " two or three poor houfes, and there is a fmaulle 

 " ryle. There hath bcene a franchifed now clene 

 " decayed." Itin. V. 49. 



courts, 



