O'Reilly— 0;/ the Waste of the Coast of Ireland, i^c. 119 



have culminated in an inundation, caused by a terrible tidal wave, in 

 the early part of 1607. 



" To return to Kenfig : what remains of that old town is 

 near the sea, and it is on all sides surrounded by hillocks of finely 

 powdered sand, and j&anked by ridges of the same fringing the 

 coast. The' ruins of several old buildings, half buried in the sand, 

 peep out of the ground, and in the immediate neighbourhood is Kenfig 

 Pool, which is said to have a circumference of nearly two miles. When 

 the pool formed itself I have not been able to discover." 



(p. 404.) — " On this coast is another piece of water, namely, 

 Crymlin or Crumlin Pool, now locally called * the Bog.' It lies on 

 Lord Jersey's estate, at a distance of about one mile east of the mouth 

 of the Tawe, and about quarter of a mile from high-water mark, from 

 which it is separated by a strip of ground known as Crymlin BuiTOws. 

 The story about this pool, also, is that it covers a town buried be- 

 neath the waters. An article of the South Wales Daily JVews, of 

 February 15th, 1899, says of Crymlin: ' It is said by the old people 

 that on the site of this bog once stood the old town of Swansea, and 

 that, in clear and calm weather, the chimneys, and even the church 

 steeple, could be seen in the bottom of the lake.' The lake was at one 

 time much larger than at present." 



(p. 416.) — " The writer of an article in the Monthly Pachet for 

 1859 gives a sketch of the story of the country overflowed by the 

 neighbouring portion of Cardigan Bay, mentioning, that once on a timo 

 there were great cities on the banks of the Dovey and the Disynni. 

 'Cities with marble wharfs,' the author says, 'busy factories, and 

 ■churches, whose towers resounded with beautiful peals and chimes of 

 bells.' The author goes onto say, that Mausna is the name of the city 

 on the Dovey ; its eastern suburb was at the sandbank now called 

 Berth, 'its western stretched far out into the sea.' The name Borth 

 stands for ' Y. Borth,' i.e. ' the Harbour.' " 



Passing from the south of Wales and the Bristol Channel to the 

 peninsula of Devon and Cornwall, which is beaten by the waves of 

 the Atlantic in all theii' force, we find in Sir Henry de la Beche's 

 Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset (1839) 

 a very interesting chapter on the "Action of the Sea on the Coast,''' 

 from which the following citations are made : — 



(p. 435.) — " As about 472 miles of coast, exclusive of estuai'ies and 

 minor irregularities, are in the district under consideration exposed to 

 the action of the sea, considerable facilities are afforded for the study 

 of this action, more especially as the rocks brought within its influence 



