A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 75 



" fiowdecayid,wasfuintimeburgefidand 

 " privileged, and ys caullid in Walfch 

 " Cairgorles. Ther ftond yet grete 

 " waulles of a caftle fet on an hylle, 

 " wher be diggid good mille ftones of 

 " a blue grit." 



The competition of the rock is fome- 

 what curious, the grit being fo exceed- 

 ingly coarfe as to have much the ap- 

 pearance of pebbles among mortar. In 

 digging amongft the ruins I was told 

 that fome filver and copper coins had 

 been difcovered not long before I was 

 here. 



The founder of this caftle is not 

 known ; it's con ft ruction however fuf- 

 4. ficiently indicates that it is of Britifh 

 origin. Hopedale, the tract of land in 

 which it is fituated, was, in the reign of 

 Owen Gwynedd, in the pofleffion of 



GryflTydd 



