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broad Spreading Fungous Roots on its sides, thc Lightnesi of which Buoysit up. It was driven cn thc Lte-Shcrt ; but I L&nch'd it off and Swamit, to be fatisfy’d it Fioattd. This 1 take the more noti« of, becausc it isdeny’d to be true, by thc Author of the Addttions to Cambden, lately Pu-blifh’d . but I my feit Saw it as Describ’d, and was Told it had formeslybeen Bigger ; there being a Lesser Spot, that they told us, had been here-tofore a part thereof. which Float ediikcvflfe.
A little above Llanberris which stands at the Foot of the Hili, are thePrincipal Fountaim of the River that tali* into the Channel of Anglefiy, atCarmrvon, call’d anciendy Segontivm.
o favanons m IV. upon the Norih side of Loch-Nef in Scotland ’ stands the FamousjA°Frafcj.^v+. bastle of Urqbart upon a Rock: the great Ditch round it was, for the molif -Zt. part, cut outof the Rock, and receiv'd the Water of theile. 'This CastU
consisted of Seven Great Towers, and it*s seid, was built by the Camines '.but had its Overthrow by King Edward the First of England : and nothingRemains now, but one Tower to the Fast.
There is, due West fiom the end of the River of Neß, an Arm of theScacalfd Beauhc Fritb, 6 Miles in Length and z in Breadth. This Botromfure has been Ftrm Land of old : sor near the Middle of it we find longÖakin Trees , with their whole Roots, some above 6 O Foot in Length, lyingcovtr’d with Sand, which, no doubt, have Grown there, and lie Flat as theyfeli. For further Information, thete are three great Heafs of Stents in thisLake, at considerablc distance one from the other : these we call Cttrns inthe bist. One of a huge Bignesi, (in the middle of the Fritb) at LowWater, is accessible : and we find it has been a Btsrial Flate by the Vmswhich are sometimes Difcover’d. As the Sea Encroaches and WearstheBanks upward, there are long Oaktn Btams of 20 or 30 Foot long Found :some of thesc 8. some 12, or 14 Fert under Ground. 1 sew oneof them 14Toot long, that carry’d the Mark of the Ax on it, and had several Wimblt-bores in it. The River of Beuly, which falls into this Arm of the Sea nearLovat , hath so Sunk, that Oaken Trtes of fncredible length, and 1 6 FootUnder-Ground, are Difcover’d in the Banks, with Degrces of Sand, Gra-vel, Claj, and Eanb Above them : And if you re member, whtn we wentro Beuly , we found some Oaks, with Coals and pieccs of Bsemt Timber, asloW as 16 Foot, or thereabouts.
OntheTop of aMountain, call’d Scisre-in-Lappich. there is aVastffenpof Whtte Stores, like Cbryflal, eachofthem bigger than a Man can Heave:they will strike Fire Hke Flint , and have the Smell of Sea wrack. Uponthis Mountain is found also Oyjler Shells in Plenty, Scallop and Lmfet Shelk,yet 2.0 ffliles firotp any Sea, Round aboutthis HillGrows the Sta-fink,in Irt(h, Teartag: It has the Taste and Colöur of that which Grows on ourSea-Banks.
The Fagan Temples , or Htgh-Places of Idolatry , are stili very Numeroushere : upon the River >side of Nar den, 1 reckon’d 13 in i Miles. They axeOrbkular Round, and at ihc West -End Two High Sionts Like Fyramids ■■
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