A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



hundred and fifty years. - Dr. Davies 

 mentions in his time an infcription be- 

 ing upon the wall under which he is 

 faid to have been interred, but that 

 being now covered with plaifter is not 

 vifible. Not far from hence is a circle 

 of ftones, called Pabell Llyarch Hen, or 



y. 



* the Tent of old Llyarch, where, it is pro- 

 bable, he had a houfe, and fpent the 

 latter part of his days. In his activity 

 in oppofing the encroachments of the 

 Saxons and Irifh, he loft his patrimonial 

 pofTeffions, and every one of his four 

 and twenty fons. Upon the lofs of 

 all his friends, he retired to a hut at 

 Aber Cuog (now Dolguog, near Ma- 

 chynlleth) to foothe with his harp the 

 remembrance of misfortune, and to vent 

 |n elegiac numbers the forrows of old 

 age in diftrefs.* He has defcribed his 



* Preface to Owen's Tranflation of the Elegies of tJ^- 

 arch Hen. Jones's Welfli Bards. Vaughan's Sketch of 

 the Hiftory of Merionethfhire. Carnb. Reg. I. 192. 



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