A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



dow. On the north-weft I was much 

 ftruck with the fingular appearance of 

 a vaft rock, called Craig Eglwyfeg, or the 

 Eagle's rock t * from the tradition of fome 

 eagles having formerly had their aerie 

 here. Leland-f feems to have miftaken 

 this for the rock, on which the caftle 

 Hands, where he fays, " there bredith 

 " every yere an egle. And the egle 

 " doth forely aflault hym that deftroy- 

 " eth the neft ; goying down in one baf- 

 " ket, and having another over his 

 *' hedde, to defend the fore ftripe of the^ 

 " egle." For more than half a mile 

 this rock lies ftratum upon ftratum in 

 fuch manner, as to form a kind of Heps, 

 parallel with the horizon, which the 

 naturalifts call Saxa fedilia. The inha- 

 bitants of Llangollen fay, that fome- 

 where about this rock is an opening, 



* Mr. Ed. Llwyd derive? it from Elifeg. 



. Ant. p. 312, 

 * Itin. V. 51. 



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