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ter, called Pwl y Gelanedd, the pool of 

 X the fain, was fought a moft fevere battle 

 betwixt the Britons and Saxons, in which 

 the aged Llywarch, taking an active part, 

 loft here his only furviving foil. 



From the fide of a fteep, juft after I 

 entered the moors, I was prefented with 

 a diftant view of the vale of Edeirneon, 

 whofe verdure and fertility formed a 

 pleafmg contrail with my bleak and 

 dreary fituation. The road now led me 

 over Trum y Sarn, the caufeivay of the 

 .ridge, fo called from it j s being near a 

 lofty heath-clad mountain, which I here 

 pafled at a little di fiance on the right ; 

 one of the immenfe ridges extending 

 fifteen or fixteen miles in length, called 

 the Ferwyn Mountains. The two moft 

 elevated points are, Cader Ferwyn and 

 Cader Fronwen. I foon afterwards came 

 to a noted Bwlch, or pafs, which .divides 

 the counties of Merioneth and Mont- 

 gomery, 



