[Wild Wales by George Borrow]@TWC D-Link bookWild Wales CHAPTER XL 1/4
CHAPTER XL. Caer Gyby--Lewis Morris--Noble Character. I dined or rather supped well at the Railroad Inn--I beg its pardon, Hotel, for the word Inn at the present day is decidedly vulgar.
I likewise slept well; how could I do otherwise, passing the night, as I did, in an excellent bed in a large, cool, quiet room? I arose rather late, went down to the coffee-room and took my breakfast leisurely, after which I paid my bill and strolled forth to observe the wonders of the place. Caer Gybi or Cybi's town is situated on the southern side of a bay on the north-western side of Anglesey.
Close to it on the south-west is a very high headland called in Welsh Pen Caer Gybi, or the head of Cybi's city, and in English Holy Head.
On the north, across the bay, is another mountain of equal altitude, which if I am not mistaken bears in Welsh the name of Mynydd Llanfair, or Saint Mary's Mount.
It is called Cybi's town from one Cybi, who about the year 500 built a college here to which youths noble and ignoble resorted from far and near.
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