domus of our race. The recent vifitation of Heaven! The unclofed wound!arreft my pen.

O PRÆCLARUM DIEM, CUM AD ILLUD DIVINUM ANIMORUM CONCILIUM, CŒTUMQUE PROFICISCAR, CUMQUE EX HAC TURBA, ET COLLUVIONE DISCEDAM! PROFICISCAR ENIM NON AD AMICOS SOLUM, ET PARENTES DILECTISSIMOS, SED ETIAM AD SARAHULAM, ANIMULAM NOSTRAM, QUA NEMO MELIOR NATA EST, NEMO PIETATE PRÆSTANTIOR: CUJUS A ME CORPUS CREMATUM EST: QUOD CONTRA DECUIT AB ILLA MEUM. ANIMUS VERO NON ME DESERENS SED RESPECTANS, IN EA PROFECTO LOCA DISCESSIT, QUO MIHI IPSI CERNEBAT ESSE VENIENDUM. QUEM EGO MEUM CASUM FOR TITER FERRE VISUS SUM; NON QUOD ÆQUO ANIMO FERREM: SED ME IPSE CONSOLABAR, EXISTIMANS, NON LONGINQUUM INTER NOS DIGRESSUM ET DISCESSUM FORE.

Cicero de Senectute.

APUD BRIGHTHELMSTONENSES, XVI. KAL. MAII
E VIVIS FLEBILIS DISCESSIT.

VIXIT ANNIS XIV. MENSIBUS X. DIEB. XXVII.
EXUVIAS SACRAS

PARENTES INFELICISSIMI

(PIETATI HEU VANÆ INDULGENTES)
APUD VIDFORDENSES

CINERIBUS PATRUM MAII KALENDIS

COMMISTAS ESSE VOLUERE*.

On a brass plate, now covered with the Downing feat, is a memorial of Morris Kyffin, of Maenan, who died (a youth) June 2d, 1610, at Bychton, on a vifit to his fifter Jane, wife to Pyers Pennant.

THE next township to the village is in Whitford Garn. In this township is Garreg, or The Rock, the higheft land in the parish; it is a large inclofed hill, the property of Sir Roger Moftyn. Part of it is a fine turf, and excellent sheep-walk;

* MAY 1, 1794.

the

GARREG

PHAROS.

the fummit, and part of the fides, rocky. From Whiteford to the top is a continual afcent. From this height the traveller may have an auguft forefight of the lofty tract of Snowdon, from the crooked Moel Shabog, at one end, to the towering Penmaen-mawr at the other; of the vast promontory of Llandudno, and part of the isle of Anglefea, with the great bay of Llanddulas, forming an extenfive crefcent; the eftuaries of the Dee and the Merfey; and to the North (at times) the ifle of Man and the Cumberland Alps, the frequent prefages of bad weather.

THE Romans took advantage of this elevated fituation, and placed on its fummit a Pharos, to conduct the navigators to and from Deva, along the difficult channel of the Seteia Portus. The building is ftill remaining. It is tolerably entire; its form is circular; the inner diameter twelve feet and a half; the thickness of the walls four feet four inches. The doors, or entrances, are oppofite to each other; over each is a fquare funnel, like a chimney, which opens on the outside, about half-way up the building. On each fide is a window. About four feet from the ground are three circular holes, lined with mortar, as is frequent in Roman buildings; and penetrate the whole wall, for purposes now unknown.

WITHINSIDE are the vestiges of a stair-cafe, which led to the floors, of which there appear to have been two. Along fuch part of the upper, which was confpicuous from the channel, are eight fmall fquare openings, cafed with free-ftone (the rest of the building being of rude lime-ftone, bedded in hard mortar) and each of thefe were feparated by wooden pannels, placed in deep grooves, the laft ftill in a perfect ftate. In each of these

partitions

partitions were placed the lights, which the Romans thought neceffary to keep diftinct, or to prevent from running into one, left they fhould be mistaken by feamen for a star. Periculum in corrivatione ignium, ne fidus exiftimetur.

To the building is very evidently a broad and raised road, pointing from the eaft; and near its upper end are the marks of a trench, which furrounded and gave protection to this useful edifice. It certainly had in later times been repaired, or perhaps applied to fome other use, for in one part is a piece of timber which could not have been aboriginal.

ΣΑΝ.

THE curious crofs called Maen Achwynfan, or the ftone of MAEN ACHWYNlamentation, stands in a small field oppofite to the gate which opens from the turnpike-road into Garreg. It takes its name, in all probability, from the penances, which were often finished before fuch facred pillars; attended with weeping, and the ufual marks of contrition: for an example, near Stafford ftood one called the weeping cross, a name analogous to ours. This is of an elegant form and sculpture; is twelve feet high, two feet four inches broad at the bottom, and ten inches thick. The base is let into another stone. The top is round, and includes, in raised work, the form of a Greek crofs. Beneath, about the middle, is another, in the form of St. Andrew's: and under that, a naked figure, with a fpear in his hand. Clofe to that, on the fide of the column, is reprefented fome animal. The reft is covered with very beautiful fret-work, like what may be feen on other pillars, of antient date, in several parts of Great Britain. I do not prefume (after the annotator on Camden has given up the point) to attempt a guefs at the age; only muft obferve, that