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matter 1 . Moreover, there are distinct traces of an aqueduct by which the waters of the 

 Cothi were so conducted along its left bank from the higher grounds, as to pass near the 

 upper part of these mines, thus leading to the inference, that water works were in use. 



While I regret my inability to solve the mineral problem satisfactorily, I would call 

 the attention of antiquaries to these and other works of art in Siluria and Wales, which 

 will amply repay them if explored with zeal. 



1 The tradition of this neighbourhood is, that the adjacent church of the five saints, (Llan-plimp-sant) took 

 its name from this stone with the five depressions, and the following is the legend. Five saints travelling in 

 these parts were ovei'taken by a violent hail storm, when they placed their faces upon this stone, and were 

 miraculously saved, though the force of the storm was such that their heads were indented upon the hard rock, 

 leaving the cavities above described ; whilst still further to mark the extent of supernatural agency, the hail- 

 stones have remained for ever as mounds of broken quartz rock. As these quartz heaps must have been in 

 existence, and their origin even veiled in obscurity before such a fable could be propagated, this monkish device 

 of the dark ages proves, that the mines must have been wrought anterior to the introduction of Christianity 

 into this region, and favours therefore the belief, that the Romans were the real miners. 



