JO8 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



I now proceeded on my journey, and 

 found the fcenery, all the way to Ru- 

 thin,* was extremely beautiful. This 

 place, like Denbigh and St. Afaph, is 

 pleafantly fituated on a confiderable 

 eminence nearly in the middle of the 

 vale of Clwyd. At a little diftance, be- 

 hind the town, the mountains feem to 

 clofe up the end of the vale. In diffe- 

 rent parts round about it I had feveral 

 fine profpedls of the adjacent country. 

 I here crofled the little river Glwyd, 

 fcarcely three yards over, which I had 

 not before noticed fince I left St. Afaph. 

 The town is large and tolerably populous ; 

 it has two markets in the week, the one 

 on Saturday for meat, and the other on 

 Monday chiefly for corn. At this place 

 is a county gaol for Denbighfhire, which 

 is a neat, and I believe well-conftrucled 



* This name is derived from the Britifh word Rludd, red, 

 and Dinas t a fort, which fignifics a ndfirt or encampment. 



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