338 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



the head of the vale. The latter forms 

 from hence a confpicuous object. 



About half a mile beyond Llandy- 

 iilio, I clambered up a lofty hill, gentle 

 of afcent on the left of the road. From 

 the top of this, which I found much 

 higher than I expected, when I only fa.w 

 it from below, I had a view of the 

 whole of the vale, and all it's windings, 

 and it's ftill more furpentizing river 

 Dee, in it's bottom immediately be- 

 neath me. Caftell Dinas Bran, from 

 hence even feemed below me, and I 

 could carry my eye along the entire 

 vale of Llangollen, and over the flat 

 country beyond, for many miles, till it 

 terminated in the far diftant mountains, 

 which bounded the fight. 



Soon a/ter I had patted the fourth 



mile ftone, the vale began to change it's 



appearance, and the road, inftead of 



winding amongft mountains, lay nearly 



4 in 



