106 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



liere piclurefque vale, bounded at a dif- 

 tance by the Clwyddian hills. The day 

 was extremely favourable ; it was dark 

 and hot, and the rolling clouds that 

 hung heavily in the atmofphere tinged 

 the mountains with their fombre fhade, 

 which gave a richnefs to the fcenes 

 fcarcely to be defcribed. 



I arrived at Llanrhaiadr, the Village of 

 the Fountain, which is fituated on a 

 fmall eminence in the middle of this fer- 

 tile vale. It takes it's name from a 

 fpring, about a quarter of a mile from the 

 church, called Ffynnon Dyfnog, where 

 there was a bath, and formerly a chapel, 

 dedicated to St. Dyfnog . Leland * men- 

 tions it: " Fynnon Dunoc, or St. Du- 

 " noc's Well, is a mighty fpring that 

 " maketh a broke running fcant a myle. 

 " There is in the eaft end of Llan 

 " Rhaidr parifh very goodly corn and 



* Itin. V. 54, 58. 



" grafTe, 



