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
This place being viewed, I came backe againe by the aforesaid bridge,
into the maine of Angleseie, and going northwards I find a fall inforced
by thrée riuerets, each one hauing his course almost south from other;
and the last falling into the confluence of the two first, not halfe a
mile from the west, where I first espied the streame: the name of the
[Sidenote: Linon.]
[Sidenote: Allo.]
most northerlie is Linon, of the second Allo; but the third is
altogither namelesse for aught that I can learne, wherefore it shall not
be necessarie to spend anie time in the further searching of his course.
Being past this, we went northwards till we came to the point, and then
going eastward, we butted vpon the fall of a certeine confluence growing
by the ioining of the Nathanon and the Geger, which méet beneath and
néere to the Langechell. And after the same we passed on somewhat
declining southward by the Hillarie point, toward the southeast, till we
came to the Dulesse: and from thence to Pentraeth water: after which we
turned northward, then eastward; and finallie southward, till we came to
Langurdin; from whence vnto Beaumarise (where began our voiage) we find
not anie water worthie to be remembred. And thence I go forward with the
description of the Dee.
[Sidenote: Dée or Deua.]
The Dee or Deua (as Ptolomie calleth it) is a noble riuer, & breeder of
the best trout, whose head is in Merioneth shire, about thrée miles
aboue the lake, situate in the countie of Penthlin, and called Lin
Tegnis, whose streame yet verie small, by reason of the shortnesse of
his course, falleth into the said lake, not far from Lanullin. There are
sundrie other waters which come also into the said lake, which is foure
or five miles in length, and about two miles ouer; as one from by south,
whose fall is east, and not manie furlongs from the Dee: another hath
his issue into the same by Langower: the third on the north side of
Lanullin, named Leie: the fourth at Glanlintegid called Jauerne, the
lake it selfe ending about Bala, and from thence running into the
[Sidenote: Trowerin.]
Trowerin, a pretie streame, and not a little augmented by the Kelme and
Monach which fall by north into the same, and ioineth with the Dée south
of Lanuair; from whence forth it looseth the name, and is afterward
[Sidenote: Ruddoch.]
called Dée. East of Bala in like sort it receiueth the Ruddoch, then the
[Sidenote: Cleton.]
Cleton, and so passing on by Landright to Langar, it méeteth with a
confluence procéeding from the Alwen and the Giron, of which this riseth
in the hils aboue Langham, the other in the mounteines about fiue or six
miles by northwest of Lanihangle in Denbighshire, where (as I gesse) it
falleth into the ground; and afterward rising againe betwéene Lanihangle
and Bettus, it holdeth on about two miles, and then ioineth with the
Giron, full six miles aboue Dole, and before it come to the Dee. From
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