126' A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



tiguing. The building appears to have 

 been about three hundred feet long, 

 and half that in breadth, occupying the 

 whole crown of the mountain ; and, 

 from it's extremely elevated fituation, 

 muft have been a place of great flrength. 

 On the fide which is the leafl fteep, it 

 was defended by trenches cut through 

 the folid rock. The prefent remains are 

 but a few (nattered walls, and thefe are 

 going fail to decay. The views from 

 hence are very grand on every fide. To- 

 wards the eaft I could look quite along the 

 whole vale of Llangollen, through which 

 the Dee was feen to foam over his bed 

 of rocks ; and beyond it, all the flat and 

 highly cultivated country, for many 

 miles. Juft beneath me lay the town of 

 Llangollen. Towards the weft I had 

 the vale of Crucis, and the mountains 

 beyond it, whofe dark fides were agree- 

 ably intermingled with wood and mea- 

 dow. 



