1^ A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



hood-abounds, and which were worked 

 in the adjoining hill, called Llanymy- 

 nech Hill, fo early as the time of the 

 Romans. Of this there are undeniable 

 proofs. One veftige of their work is a 

 great artificial cave of an immenfe 

 length, called Ogo, from whence tfcey 

 ..got copper. The windings of this ca- 

 vern are fo numerous and intricate, that 

 fome years back, two men of the parifh 

 endeavouring to explore it's mazes, were 

 fo bewildered in it's labyrinths, that, 

 when the} r were found by fome miners 

 who went in fearch of them, they had 

 lain themfelves down in defpair of ever 

 again feeing day-light. About forty 

 years back, fome miners, in fearch of 

 copper, found, in the recefles of the 

 Ogo, feveral fkeletons lying in it. When 

 alive, they feem to have dragged a life 

 of mifery in this gloomy manfion for 

 fome time; for there were fome culi- 

 nary 



