[Wild Wales by George Borrow]@TWC D-Link bookWild Wales CHAPTER XXXIX 2/12
I just tasted it, gave the child a penny and blessed her. "Oes genoch tad ?" "No," said she; "but I have a mam." Tad in mam; blessed sounds; in all languages expressing the same blessed things. After walking for some hours I saw a tall blue hill in the far distance before me.
"What is the name of that hill ?" said I to a woman whom I met. "Pen Caer Gybi," she replied. Soon after I came to a village near to a rocky gully.
On inquiring the name of the village, I was told it was Llan yr Afon, or the church of the river.
I passed on; the country was neither grand nor pretty--it exhibited a kind of wildness, however, which did not fail to interest me--there were stones, rocks and furze in abundance.
Turning round the corner of a hill, I observed through the mists of evening, which began to gather about me, what seemed to be rather a genteel house on the roadside; on my left, and a little way behind it a strange kind of monticle, on which I thought I observed tall upright stones.
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