demolimed it like the tower of Conway. The 

 next morning we went to the tops of the hill, 

 from whence we had a full view of the vale 

 of Clwydd, from one end to the other, which 

 is equalled by none in England, for fertility X 

 and beauty. There is neither mountain or 

 rock to be feen in any part of it. After you 

 turn your back upon Rudland, the hills on one 

 fide of it rife very gradually by gentle afcents; 

 moft of them are cultivated quite to their 

 fummitsj others half way upj and, when the- 

 tops are not enclofed, they are a fine grafly 

 down, like Clent-hill, and fhaded and enli- 

 vened with wood, like the flopes in my park ; 

 but yet I prefer the fcenes in Montgomery- 

 mire to this lively vale: there is a great 

 beauty in this, but there is no majefty ; whereas 

 there, as in the mind of our- friend the Madona, 

 the foft and the agreeable is mixed with the 

 noble, the great, and the fublime. About the 

 middle of this vale, upon the brow of a hill, 

 ftands Denbigh Caftle, a very fine ruin; it en- 

 clofes as much ground as Conway or Carnar- 

 von, but hath not fo much building. The 

 towers of it are Handing at a very conliderable 

 diitance from one another, being fewer in, 

 number; but they are in the fame ftile of ar- 

 chiteture, having been built in the reign of 

 the fame king, who, by thefe ftrong fortreffes, 



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