132 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



When this caftle was demolished we; 

 have no information ; it muft however 

 have been very early, for Leland fpeaks 

 of it, in his time, as being quite in a 

 ruinous ftate.* 



That I might fee as much of the 

 beauties of the vale of Llangollen as 

 poffible, I determined to walk round it, 

 a circuit of not more than ten or eleven 

 miles. I therefore crofled the bridge 

 and went down the road, on the north 

 fide of the river, which leads to Ruabon 

 and Wrexham. The fcenery this way 

 was pretty, but from the lownefs of the 

 road it afforded nothing very ftriking. 

 The mod beautiful profpe6ls I had by 

 looking back towards the town, where 

 the caftle from it's great elevation almoft 

 always formed a very confpicuous fea- 

 ture, and where I frequently had the 



Itin. V. 51. 



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