432 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



I pafled Cors-y-gedol, the antient family 

 feat of the Vaughan's, but now the pro- 

 perty of Sir Thomas Moftyn, Bart, and 

 continuing my journey by Llanaber, the 

 parilh church to Barmouth, I foon after- 

 wards arrived at that place. 



Barmouth is placed in one of the moft 

 difagreeable fituations that could poflibly 

 have been chofen for it, near the conflux 

 of the river Maw, or Mawddach, whence 

 it is called by the Welfh, Aber Maw, and 

 from this Berthaw, or, corruptedly, Bar- 

 mouth. Some of the houfes are built 

 amongft the fand at the bottom, and others 

 at different heights, up the fide of a huge 

 rock, which entirely protects the town on 

 the eaft. Their fituations are fo fingular, 



to his memory; but when this heap came to be dif- 

 graced by being the mark where the guilty was 

 laid, the cuftom of every one who parted b;*, to 

 fling his flone, was ftill confirmed ; but now only 

 as a token of deteftation. 



that 



