Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of BritaineHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
[Sidenote: Téec.]
This riuer (which Ptolomie calleth Toesobius, as I take it) after the
deriuation thereof from the head, passeth on the west side by Spittieuan
and Tiherio, beneath which it taketh in a streame comming from the east
out of Denbighshire, deriued from thrée heads, and of the greatest
called Nag. Soone after also another, and then the third, which commeth
in from the west by Lanpen Mawr: next of all the Leder on the same side,
which commeth by Dolathelan castell: and aboue that from a Lin of the
[Sidenote: Ligow.]
same denomination. Beneath this and selfe hand lieth likewise the Ligow
or Ligwie, procéeding from two lakes, that is, the Mumber and the Ligow.
On the right hand as we still descend, is the Coid, then the Glin, & a
little lower we méet with the Lin Gerioneth: and after we be past
another on the right side, we come to the Perloid, which commeth out of
Lin Cowlid, to the Ygan, to the Idulin, to the castell Water on the
left, & then to the Melandider on the right, without the sight of anie
other, till we come almost to Conweie, where we find a notched streame
comming from by west, and called Guffen or Gyffin into the same by one
chanell on the northeast side of the towne, beneath Guffin or Gyffin,
and ouer against Lansanfraid in Denbighshire; so farre as I now
remember. Some part of Carnaruonshire stretcheth also beyond Aber
[Sidenote: Ormeshed.]
Conweie, or the fall of Conweie, & it is called Ormeshed point, wherein
also is a rill, whose fall into the sea is betwéene Penrin and
Landright. And thus we haue made an end of the chéefe waters which are
to be found in this countie.
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