428 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Betwixt the cromlech and the town of 

 Harlech, I patted another Druidical circle, 

 fomewhat fmaller than the one I have 

 before mentioned, but furrounded, like 

 that, with another diftant circle. 



It being the ebb of the tide, as we 

 returned, the guide pointed out to me part 

 of a long {lone wall, which runs out from 

 Mochras, a point of land a few miles fouth 

 of Harlech, in a direction weft- fouth- weft, 

 for above twelve miles. This is called 

 Sarn Bad-rwyg, the Jhip -breaking caufeway. )( 

 Weft of Harlech there was formerly ano- 

 ther habitable hundred belonging to Me- 

 rionethmire, called Cantre'r Gwaelod, the J*( 

 lowland hundred, on the edge of which, 

 this great ftone-wall was built, as a fence 

 againft the fea. But about the year 500, 

 when Gwyddno Garan Hir was lord of it, 

 one of the perfons who looked after the 

 dams, was fo carelefs as to let the fea 

 break through them, and ever fmce that 



time, 



