i* A TOURROUND NORTH WALES. 



twentieth year of her reign. How it has 

 fince defcended is not known.* 



On a bank, not far from this monaftry, 

 ftood Caftell Cymmer, the caftle of the 

 conflux, built by Uchdrut ap Edwin. This 

 caftle was demolifhed upon fome difagree- 

 ment with the founder, by the fons of 

 Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, about the year 1113, 

 not long after it's eredtion.-f' 



Returning from the abbey, I crofTed the 

 bridge at Llanelltid, and went on the 

 vale leading towards Tan-y-bwlch. The 

 firft waterfall I came to, was Rhaiadr du, 

 the black cataraft, this is in the grounds 

 of William Maddocks, Efq. at Dol-y- 

 Melynllyn, the holme of the yellow pool, and 

 from this circumflance, it is called alfo the 



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, * Cambrian Regifter, II. 285. 



t Powel's Hiftory of Wales, p. 183. Vaughan's 

 Sketch of the Hiftory of Merionethlliire, Camb. 

 Rg. I. 190. 



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