He may have stood upon it, to watch for the coming of his enemies, but I believe it was here long before his time, and that it was raised over some old dead king by the people whom he had governed." "Do they bury kings by the side of rivers, sir ?" "In the old time they did, and on the tops of mountains; they burnt their bodies to ashes, placed them in pots and raised heaps of earth or stones over them.

Heaps like this have frequently been opened, and found to contain pots with ashes and bones." "I wish all English could speak Welsh, sir." "Why ?" "Because then we poor Welsh who can speak no English could learn much which we do not know." Descending the monticle we walked along the road together.

After a little time I asked my companion of what occupation he was and where he lived.
"I am a small farmer, sir," said he, "and live at Llansanfraid Glyn Dyfrdwy across the river." "How comes it," said I, "that you do not know English ?" "When I was young," said he, "and could have easily learnt it, I cared nothing about it, and now that I am old and see its use, it is too late to acquire it." "Of what religion are you ?" said I.
"I am of the Church," he replied.
I was about to ask him if there were many people of his persuasion in these parts; before, however, I could do so he turned down a road to the right which led towards a small bridge, and saying that was his way home, bade me farewell and departed.
I arrived at Corwen which is just ten miles from Llangollen and which stands beneath a vast range of rocks at the head of the valley up which I had been coming, and which is called Glyndyfrdwy, or the valley of the Dee water.

It was now about two o'clock, and feeling rather thirsty I went to an inn very appropriately called the Owen Glendower, being the principal inn in the principal town of what was once the domain of the great Owen.

Here I stopped for about an hour refreshing myself and occasionally looking into a newspaper in which was an excellent article on the case of poor Lieutenant P.