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to adt-as a check upon the mountaineers.* 

 Near Penallt, about two miles diftant, is 

 Cefyn Caer, the ridge of the city, where 

 Roman coins have been frequently found, 

 and where there has been formerly a cir- 

 cular fortification of fome extent. -j- 



From the top of a high rock, which 

 overlooks the town, I had a moft extend ve 

 view of all the places around me. It was 

 a kind of profpecl: that reminded me very 

 ftrongly of that fhewn to Mofes from the 

 top of Pifgah. " And Mofes went up 

 " from the plains of Moab unto the moun- 

 " tain of Nebo, to the top of Pifgah, that 

 " is over againft Jericho : and the Lord 

 < mewed him all the land of Gilead unto 

 " Dan. And all Naphtali, and the land 

 " of Ephraim, and Manafieth ; and all 



* Camden's Britannia. 



t Vaughan's Sketch of the Hiftory of Merioneth- 

 fhire in the Cambrian Reglfter, I, 189. 



" the 



