A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 147 



" Hie Jacet Jorwerth Sullen, Vicarius 

 " de Cowaen, ora pro eo." And in the 

 church-yard is an apparently very old 

 fquare Hone pillar, that has formerly been 

 finely carved, but from time and wea- 

 ther, the ornamental work is nearly 

 worn out. I faw here an alms-houfe, 

 founded in 1709, by William Eyton, 

 Efquire, of Plas Warren, in Shropfhire, 

 for fix clergymen's widows, of Merio* 

 nethfhire. 



On the top of a hill on the oppofite 

 fide of the river, called Cefyn Creini, 

 the fummit of worjijip, is a vaft circle of 

 loofe Clones, which has the appearance 

 cf having been a Britim fortification, 

 and is, I believe, what Mr. Pennant* calls 

 Caer Drewyn, and by others y CaerWen, 

 the white fort. It is near half a mile in 

 circumference, and the walls are at pre- 



* Tcur in "North Wales, IE. 67. 



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