500 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



The caflle is iituated on an eminence, 

 nearly north of the town, and has from 

 every appearance been a grand and auguft 

 building. It is now fo much demolifhed, 

 and even the foundations at prefent are fo 

 very imperfect, that it is impoffible to af- 

 certain, with any degree of accuracy, 

 what has been it's extent. It flood on a 

 rock quite precipitous on one fide, and of 

 fo great an height as to have the command 

 of all the places around it. The remains 

 are a fmall part of a tower at the fouth- 

 wefl corner, and a few low and broken 

 walls. In this tower are feveral fmall 

 holes, fimilar to thofe I had before feen in 

 the Roman fort at Segontium, near Caer- 

 narvon ; and thefe ferved flill more to 

 convince me that they were all originally 

 formed for no other purpofe than to reft in 



vvas then called, from it's fituation, Mons Gome- 

 ricus ; but I am at a lofs to know the meaning of the 

 word Gomericus. n 



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