A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



The inftrument I faw, feeins to have 

 been in it's fcale quite different from 

 thofe mentioned by Mr. Jones, in his 

 account of the Welm Bards, and by the 

 Honorable Dames Harrington, in the 

 Archasologia, of the Antiquarian So- 

 ciety.* In each of thefe, one end of 

 the bridge is reprefented as (landing in, 

 and the other below, and not as in this 

 cafe above the found hole. 



I did not much admire the tone of the 

 inftrument, it was harfh and unpleafant, 

 but this might be owing in a great mea- 

 fure, to indifferent abilities of the per- 

 former, and to the badnefs of it's con- 

 ftruclion. When accompanied by the 

 harp, it's tone was much mellowed, 

 but dill it had unconquerable harm- 

 nefs. 



As to the antiquity of the Crwth, 

 there is but little written evidence, to 

 carry it farther back than the time of 



* Vol. III. p. 33. 



Leland, 



