{152} The Traeth Bychan, Or The Small Sands, Are Chiefly Formed By
The River Which Runs Down The Beautiful Vale Of Festiniog To
Maentwrog And Tan Y Bwlch, Near Which Place It Becomes Navigable.
Over Each Of These Sands The Road Leads From Merionyth Into
Caernarvonshire.
{153} Lleyn, the Canganorum promontorium of Ptolemy, was an
extensive hundred containing three comots, and comprehending that
long neck of land between Caernarvon and Cardigan bays.
Leland
says, "Al Lene is as it were a pointe into the se."
{154} In mentioning the rivers which the missionaries had lately
crossed, our author has been guilty of a great topographical error
in placing the river Dissennith between the Maw and Traeth Mawr, as
also in placing the Arthro between the Traeth Mawr and Traeth
Bychan, as a glance at a map will shew.
{155} To two personages of this name the gift of prophecy was
anciently attributed: one was called Ambrosius, the other
Sylvestris; the latter here mentioned (and whose works Giraldus,
after a long research, found at Nefyn) was, according to the story,
the son of Morvryn, and generally called Merddin Wyllt, or Merddin
the Wild. He is pretended to have flourished about the middle of
the sixth century, and ranked with Merddin Emrys and Taliesin, under
the appellation of the three principal bards of the Isle of Britain.
{156} This island once afforded, according to the old accounts, an
asylum to twenty thousand saints, and after death, graves to as many
of their bodies; whence it has been called Insula Sanctorum, the
Isle of Saints.
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