450 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



beyond meafure, dull and uninterefting. 

 At a diftance, towards the fea, I had no- 

 thing but turfy bogs and fait marfhes; 

 and on the other fide, the mountains were 

 low and ftony, and completely barren in 

 pi&urefque beauty. 



In a field by the road Aide, near Llan- 

 bedir, I obferved two upright ftones {land- 

 ing near each other, the one about ten, 

 and the other fix feet in height. They 

 were without infcriptions, and were pro- 

 bably what the Britim called Meini Givyr, 

 the ftones of the heroes, having been 

 eredted as funeral monuments to fome of 

 their antient defijed warriors who were 

 (lain in battle. 



A few hundred yards beyond the fifth 

 mile ftone, and at a little diftance on the 

 left of the road, were two cromlechs very 

 near each other, placed on barrows, or 



heaps 



