Then we have our lake, our Llyn Tegid, the lake of beauty.

Show me anything like that near Llangollen ?" "Then," said I, "there is your mound, your Tomen Bala.

The Llangollen people can show nothing like that." Tom Jenkins looked at me for a moment with some surprise, and then said: "I see you have been here before, sir." "No," said I, "never, but I have read about the Tomen Bala in books, both Welsh and English." "You have, sir," said Tom.

"Well, I am rejoiced to see so book-learned a gentleman in our house.

The Tomen Bala has puzzled many a head.