A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



in a line all the way to Corwen, by 

 which much of it's beauty was loft to 

 the eye. 



About three miles farther on, an oak 

 wood on the left, and a fmall clump of 

 firs on an eminence on the right, mark 

 the place, near which was the palace of 

 " the wild and irregular" Owen Glyn- 

 dwr, but of this, except here and there a 

 few fcattered flones upon the ground, 

 there are no remains. This celebrated 

 hero,* whofe actions make fo confpicu- 

 ous an appearance in our hiftory, at the 

 beginning of the fifteenth century, 

 was the fon of GryfFydd Vychan, a de- 

 fcendant of Meredith, Prince of North 

 Wales. He received a liberal education, 

 and when of age fufficient, he came into 



* Mr. Pennant, has favored the world with an excellent 

 account of this celebrated character (from which the prefent 

 has been chiefly extracted) in his Tour in North Wales, Vol. 

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England, 



