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formed a very pi<5lurefque fcene, had it 

 not been for the number of white-" 

 walhed cottages which unpleafingly ob- 

 truded themfelves from amongft the 

 trees. Beyond this, a neat little bridge of 

 a fingle arch, with a few ruftic cottages 

 on the bank of the itream overfha- 

 clowed with trees, were pretty. The 

 afpecl of the country was here far more 

 mountainous than that I had lately 

 pafied; but having gone through this 

 vale, I foon had again flat and unculti- 

 vated profpecls. 



Caergwrle, like Holt, has been once a 

 flourifhing town, and continued fuch 

 till Wrexham became fo much fre- 

 quented, fince which time it has by de- 

 grees dwindled almoft to nothing. It 

 is in the parifh of Hope, a town about 

 half a mile diftant. 



There is every reafon to fuppofe that 

 Caergwrle was formerly a Roman fta- 



tion, 



