A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



at the head of the pool ; and pa fling 

 through it, as fo great an authority in 

 thefe matters as Giraldus Cambrinfis* 

 fays, without mixing it's waters with 

 thofe of the lake, it is difcharged under 

 a bridge, not far from Bala, called Pont 

 Mwnwg y Llyn, the bridge at the neck of 

 the lake. 



The name of this river is properly 

 Dwy, divine ; a name which, no doubt, 

 it acquired many centuries ago, from the 

 fuperftitious veneration in which it was 

 held by the natives, on account of it's 

 miraculous properties of overflowing it's 

 banks without the intervention of rains-(% 

 and from It's being faid to have foretold 

 fome remarkable events by the chang- 

 ing of it's channel. And it is even laid, 

 that when the Britons have been drawn 

 up on it's banks, ready to engage the 



Lin. Camb. 



Iti-n. Camb. auft. Slv. Gir. Camb. Lib. II. c. r i. 



Saxons, 



