$6 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



building, having four towers, one at 

 each corner and a fifth in the front, but 

 thefe being near fifty feet thick, give the 

 whole a heavy and clumfy afpecl. 

 Within is an elegant court yard a hun- 

 dred and fixty five feet long, and a hun- 

 dred broad, having on the eaft fide a 

 handfome Colonade. The Dungeon, 

 the defcent to which is down a flight of 

 forty two fteps, is faid to be as deep as 

 the walls are high. The chief apart- 

 ments are a Saloon, Drawing room and 

 Gallery ; in the latter of which is a large 

 collection of paintings principally con- 

 fifting of family portraits. 



In a room adjoining to this, I obferv- 

 ed a fingular landfcape, in which Piiiyll 

 Rhaiadr, the celebrated waterfall in 

 Montgomery (hire, was painted as falling 

 into the fea, which warned the foot of 

 it's rock. I enquired into the caufe of 

 this flrange impropriety, and was in- 

 formed, 



