On the right-hand side it is shaded by an ash.

The brook when we viewed it, though at times a roaring torrent, was stealing along gently, on both sides it is overgrown with alders, noble hills rise above it to the east and west, John Jones told me that it abounded with trout.

I asked him why the bridge was called Pont y Meibion, which signifies the bridge of the children.

"It was built originally by children," said he, "for the purpose of crossing the brook." "That bridge," said I, "was never built by children." "The first bridge," said he, "was of wood, and was built by the children of the houses above." Not quite satisfied with his explanation, I asked him to what place the little bridge led, and was told that he believed it led to an upland farm.

After taking a long and wistful view of the bridge and the scenery around it, I turned my head in the direction of Llangollen.