A TOtfR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Britifh Arch Druid is fuppofed to have 

 been near Llanidan, on the fouth eaft 

 coaft of Anglefea, where are faid, even 

 yet, to be left fome flight veftiges of 

 Tre'r Dry w the Arch Druid's manfion : Bod- 

 Drudau, the abode of the Druids: and near 

 them Bod-owyr, the refidence oftheOvates, 

 and Tre'r Beirdd, the abode of the Bards* 

 The Druids were employed chiefly 

 in the exercife of religious functions, 

 and it was their prerogative to prefide 

 over the rites and myfteries of their re- 

 ligion. The office of the Bards was to 

 fmg to the multitude their religious pre- 

 cepts ; to fmg to the harp at their nup- 

 tials, and funeral obfequies, their games 

 and other folemnities; and, at the head 

 of the armies, to chant the praifes of 

 thofe who had fignalized themfelves by 

 virtuous, or heroic adlions. The Ovate 

 appears to have conducted the mod tri- 

 vial duties appertaining to their religion, 



* Rowland's Mona Antiqua Reftaurata, 235, 236* 



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