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and the higheft turret, though for what 

 reafon I know not, fince the prefent build- 

 ing was founded many centuries after her 

 time, goes yet by the name of Bronwen's 

 Tower.* 



It was afterwards called Caer Collwyn,^ 

 or C0//ivyn's fort, from Collwyn ap Tangon, 

 one of the fifteen tribes of North Wales, 

 who repaired it in the eleventh century, and 

 reilded for fome time in a fquare tower, 

 then called Bronwen's Tower. J The pre- 

 fent name, Harlech, is probably derived 

 from the Britiih Hardd, beautiful ; and 

 Llech, a rock, indicative of it's lituation. 



According to fome of the antient Britim 

 Hiftorians, this caftle was built by Maelgwn 



* Perhaps this tower may have flood upon the 

 fite of the antient one of that name, and fo have 

 ftill retairred the former appellation, 



t It is fometimes, though improperly, called 

 Caer Colun. 



$ See the hiftory of the fifteen tribes of North 

 Wales, in the Camb. Regifter, I. 148, 



Gwynedd, 



