Wanderings and excursions in North Wales . ot more than ninemiles I was presented with a combination of striking and pic-turesque objects, under the varying lights and shadows of a richautumnal evening, which made my entrance into Caernarvon,without reference to its magnificent monuments, as new andpleasing as if I had then beheld it for the first time. The evening shadows, half shrouding its massive bulwarks, asI drew nigh, gave an air of vastness and gloom to its wide-spreadingwalls and heavy towers, which, with the silence of aj)proachingnight, the far misty bay, and the dinniess of surroun
Wanderings and excursions in North Wales . ot more than ninemiles I was presented with a combination of striking and pic-turesque objects, under the varying lights and shadows of a richautumnal evening, which made my entrance into Caernarvon,without reference to its magnificent monuments, as new andpleasing as if I had then beheld it for the first time. The evening shadows, half shrouding its massive bulwarks, asI drew nigh, gave an air of vastness and gloom to its wide-spreadingwalls and heavy towers, which, with the silence of aj)proachingnight, the far misty bay, and the dinniess of surrounding objects,had a peculiarly sombre and imposing effect. Noble and beautiful, and as admirably situated, the Caer ynArvon, (or strong-walled town) is supposed to have sprung fromthe famed Segontium—not a mile distant—of the conqueringRoman. For its more ample and magnificent feudal structure,—almost terrible to the eye,—it is indebted to the first Edward, whoraised the colossal castle—as if in derision of the poor tenure of all. vt; ji^ liii J i!).> I WANDERINGS THROUGH NORTH WALES. 171 sovereign power—near the ruins of the great Roman station. Theprincipal seat of the colony, it received its name from the riverSeiont, which, flowing from the extensive lake of Llanberis, passesunder the walls, and falls into the Menai not far from the an oblong shape, it covered a space of six acres, and adjoinedto it was the massive fort, which occupied not less than one two sides the walls, yet almost entire, rise to a height of elevenfeet, and are six in thickness. The remains of a chapel, foundedby Helen, daughter of Octavius, Duke of Cornwall, and a wellbearing her name, are still among the wrecks of time, although notreadily discovered even by the observant stranger. The last Llewellyn dates from it a charter, granted to the Prioryof Penmon in the year 1221; and soon after his conquest, Edwardbegan the stupendous pile which served less to over
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