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Letters Written During a Tour Through North Wales, in the Year 1798, and at Other Times
Letters Written During a Tour Through North Wales in the Year 1798 and at Other Times Author:John Evans Subtitle: Containing Views of the History, Antiquities, and Customs of That Part of the Principality, and Interpersed With Observations on Its Scenery, Agriculture, Botany, Mineralogy, Trade and Manufactures General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1804 Original Publisher: Printed for C. and R. Baldwin Subjects: Wales,... more » North History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER III. Dbar Sir, D'masy Mowddwy. -1- O a heart of disinterestedness and generosity, like yours, every narration that tends to correct the malicious or the erroneous statements of others, must be acceptable, as an offering at the shrine of verity. It is with reluctance, I assure you, that I shall have to appeal to that disinterestedness and generosity, more) than once, in the course of my route, which falls within the compass of this Letter. Retreading our steps to Newton, we took the old road to Llanvair, over the mountains, that we might be able to see the ruins of Dolferwyn, or the meadow of the Maiden Castle ; which stands on the summit of a cone-shaped hill of steep ascent, surrounded by a wooden dingle, whence rises a small stream that soon joins the Severn. It is built of the small shivered stone of the country, like Dinas Bran, which fortress it resembles also in its scite andplan. On the accessible sides of the hill deep trenches are cut through the solid rock. Evans in his Diss. de Bardis says, it was erected by Bleddya ap Gynvin, between the years 1065 and 1073: but Dugdale, on what authority I know not, dates it much lower down. In his Man. II. 223, he says it was built by Dafydd ap Llewellyn, about the year 1242: a...« less