12O A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



addrefles it in language finely poetical 

 and defcriptive ; 



"Say, wild Valle Crucis, time decayed 



Dim on the brink of Deva's wandering flood, 

 Your riv'd arch glimmering thro' the tangled glade, 

 Your gay hills towering o'er your night of wood, 

 Deep in the vale's recefles as you ftand, 

 And defolately great the rifing figh command. 



Of the church are ftill left the eaft 

 and weft ends, and the fouth tranfept, 

 In the weft end is a round arched door, 

 and over it, in a round arch, are three 

 lancet windows ; and, above thefe again, 

 a circular or marigold one, with eight 

 divifions. The other end has three long 

 lancets nearly from the ground, and over 

 them two others, all very much orna- 

 mented within. This end, from the 

 fiile of it's architecture, has the appear- 

 ance of fomewhat higher antiquity than 

 the other. The cloifter on the fouth fide, 

 which was only a fhell in Buck's time, is 

 now converted into a dwelling houfe, 



which 



