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appearance of the caftle of Belgrade, in 

 Turkey. 



The evening that I arrived here, the at- 

 mofphere was perfectly clear, and I could 

 fee very plainly the peaked fummit of Snow- 

 don elevated high above all the other 



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mountains. The promontory of Llyn was 

 viiible in almoft every part; Criccieth 

 Caftle feemed fcarcely a mile diftant -, and 

 the fine, though dangerous Bay of Cardigan, 

 lay entirely before me. 



The antient name of this fortrefs was 

 Twr Bronwen, Bronwen's 'Tower -, fo called 

 from Bronwen,* or the white-necked fifter 



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to Bren, (or Branus) ap Llyn, Duke of 

 Cornwall, and afterwards King of Great 

 Britain, who lived about the year 290. It 

 is fuppofed by fome that me refided here, 



* She died in Anglefea, and was interred on the 

 bank of the river Alaw, in that ifland. Mr. Row- 

 lands fays, her monument was in exiftence fo lately 

 as in his time. See Mona Antiqua Reftaurata. 



and 



