472 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



warned. From the church-yard is a pretty 

 view up a green and meadowy vale. Ma- 

 chynlleth is a place of fome trade, and I 

 fancied it had the afpect of being more 

 opulent than moft of the towns in this part 

 of the principality. 



I was fhewn an old building, now con- 

 verted into ftables, conftructed of the thin 

 flaty ftone, with which this country abounds, 

 where it is faid that Owen Glyndwr fum- 

 moned the nobility and gentry of Wales in 

 the year 1402, when he was acknowledged 

 as their prince, and as fuch proclaimed 

 and crowned accordingly.* 



Machynlleth was not improbably the 

 Maglona of the Romans, their principal 

 flation in Montgomeryshire ; where, in 

 the reign of the Emperor Honorius, the 

 band of Solenfes were flationed in garrifon, 



* Wynne's Hiftory of Wales, p. 321. Carte's 

 Hiftory of England, II. 655. 



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