1*,6 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



lently and finoothly on, within it's flat 

 and meadowy banks. 



I now entered Corwen, the white- 

 choir,, a. dirty little market town, which,, 

 with it's white-warned churcfo, are fitua- 

 ted under a rock at the foot of the 

 Ferwyn mountains. It is a place of 

 great refort for anglers, who frequent 

 it for the convenience of riming in the 

 Dee, which abounds in falmon, trout r 

 graylings, and many other excellent 

 fpecies of fifh. 



It is celebrated for having been the 



place of rendezvous of the \Velfh 



forces, under Owen Gwynedd, in the 



year 1165, who, from hence put an end 



X to theinvafion of Henry II.* 



In the church, is an ancientmonument 

 of one of the vicars, which has upon it 

 this infcription ; 



* Vau-han's Sketch of the Hiftory of 

 in Camb. Reg. L 197. 



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