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were neat little cottages feen peeping 

 from amongft the trees. 



Having palled this vale, I entered 

 Glynn Dyfrdwy, the valley of the Dee, 

 celebrated for having once been the pro- 

 perty of the Welfh hero, Owen Glyn- 

 dwr. The mountains here are high, 

 and their features bold and prominent, 

 from the winding of the river, and the 

 turnings in the vale, almoft every ftep 

 prefented a new lanfcape. 



I parled Llandyfilio Hall, the family 

 feat of the Jones's, feated on a woody 

 flat, near the oppofite edge of the Dee, 

 From it's fituation in the bofom of the 

 mountains, it feemed almoft fecluded 

 from the world, but it pofiefles fo much 

 beauty around it, that it mult be a mofl 

 charming retreat. 



Looking back on the places I had left, 

 I faw Caftell Dinas Bran, and it's ac- 

 companying rock, Craig Eglwyfeg, at 



the 



