A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 9! 



ing entirely along the vale of ClwycL 

 The road was low, and the vale fo wide, 

 that it was only now and then that I 

 could get any profpe6l at all. A woody 

 dell, watered by the river Elwy, and or- 

 namented with a gentleman's feat or 

 two, pleafingly fituated amongft the 

 trees, on it's rifing bank, afforded a pic- 

 turefque fcene on the right of the road, 

 about three miles from St. Afaph, 



The town of Denbigh,* which was 

 hidden by the mountains, till I came 

 within a mile of it, is fituated upon a hill 

 whofe fummit is feen crowned by the 

 fine ruins of it's caflle, nearly in the 

 middle of the vale of Clwyd. The ftreets 

 are all, except one, very irregular, and the 

 houfes ill built. I wandered up to the 



* Denbigh was anciently called Caftell Kled uryn yn Rhos, 

 cr the craggy bill in Rhos, the former name of the traft in 

 which it is feated. Dinbeck> the prefent Welfh appellation, 

 Signifies a ftnall hill, which it is when compared with the 

 pc ighbouring mountains. Pennant's Tour, II. 3*7. 



caftle, 



