172 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES, 



gomery, called Milltir Gerig, the Jlony 

 mile. 



I now had a view into the curious and 

 romantic vale of Llangynog, fo com- 

 pletely enclofed on all fides by mountain 

 barriers, as apparently to afford no outlet 

 for the inhabitants below. The moun- 

 tai'ns are in many places almoft perpen- 

 dicular, and their cliffs not to be fcaled 

 by any thing, except the goats and fheep, 

 which browfe in the greateft fafety 

 upon their fteep and precipitous fides. 

 The bottom was interfperfed with the 

 houfes of fmall farmers, who there carry 

 on the procefs of cultivation with fome 

 care. 



A tolei^bly good road took me from 

 the edge of this vale, by a defcent rather 

 fteep, firft into the hollow, and then to 

 the fmall and dirty village of Llangy- 

 nog, the Church of St. Cunog, on the 

 north fide of which rifes a moil ftupen- 

 5 dous 



