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2nile, and five bridges were fwept away 

 in the parifh. The inhabitants provi- 

 dentially received a timely alarm ; the 

 confequence of a few minutes d-elay 

 \yould have been the deitruction of the 

 whole village. The only perfon miffing 

 was a poor woman, who, being Tick in 

 bed, was drowned.* 



On the fummit of a high and craesnr 



(J **. s *.^ */ 



rock, at fome diftance from the road, 

 about a mile beyond Llanwchllyn, are 

 the remains of an ancient Britifh fort, 

 X called Caftell Corndochon. It's form 

 ieems to have been fomewhat oval, and 

 it has confifled of an oblong tower, 

 rounded at the extremity, and behind it 

 another that was fquare. Refpecting 

 this fortrefs, I have not met with a tingle 

 hiftorical fac~L 



Returning I faw, on an eminence on 

 the left, near the head of the pool C-aer 



* Pennant II. p. 87, 



Gai, 



