l6'6 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



rally lodged in fome vale below. The 

 prefent accident happened after a thun- 

 der ftorm, on the soth of June, 1781, 

 when the river Twrch overflowed it's 

 banks in fuch a dreadful torrent, as to 

 fweep every thing before it. According 

 to the newfpaper-accounts no lefs than 

 feventeen houfes, ten cows, and a vafl 

 number of fheep, befides the foil of all 

 the meadows and corn-fields, in it's 

 courfe were deftroyed by it ; and this 

 meadow, in which the greater part of 

 the ftones were lodged, was fo heaped 

 with them, as to render it not worth the 

 trouble of clearing again for cultivation. 

 The dimenfions of fome of the ftones 

 borne here by the impetuofity of the tor- 

 rent are aftoniihing ; one was 19 feet 

 X long, 9 broad, and 6 high ; another 19^ 

 feet by 7^, and 6 deep, was fplit by 

 linking upon another. Eight other 

 ftones, half thisfize, were carried half a 



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