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In the civil wars of the laft century, 

 about a hundred of the king's troops were 

 attempting to raife a fortification about 

 this place, to defend it againft the Parlia- 

 ment's forces, when Mr. Edward Vaughan, 

 at the head of a fmall party, attacked and 

 routed them, taking their captain and 

 eighteen others prifoners.* 



The celebrated Merionethshire moun- 

 tain, Cader Idris, rifes at a little diftance, 

 fouth-weft of Dolgelle, and it's fummit is 

 about fix miles from thence. As guides 

 can be at times procured here, moft per- 

 fons choofe to afcend it from this place. 

 Such was my intention, but I was com- 

 pletely prevented by wet and unpleafant 

 weather. 



* Whitelock's Memorials, p. 190. 



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