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prefent illegible.* It was once twelve 

 feet long, but having been thrown 

 <lown and broken fometime during the 

 civil wars, it's upper part only is now 

 left, which is about feven feet in 

 length. After the civil wars it lay neg- 

 lecled for feveral years, till at laft Mr. 

 Lloyd, of Trevor Hall, the owner of the 

 land in which it (lands, in the year 

 1779, caufed this part of fo valuable a 

 relic of antiquity to be raifed from 6b- 

 fcurity, and placed once more on it's 

 pecleflal. 



Valle Crucis, or Llan Egweft Abbey, 

 about a quarter of a mile from this pil- 

 lar, is a grand and majeftic ruin, afford- 

 ing fome elegant fpecimens of the an- 

 cient Gothic architecture. Mifs Seward 



* Mr. Edward Llwyd copied it when it was in a more 

 perfeftftate. In the additions to Camden, Vol. II. p. 582, 

 there is a copy of a letter, dated i4th September, 1696, 

 from him to Mr. Wanley upon this fubjeft. 



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