Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, CompleteHolinshed, Raphael
History
Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete
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
[Sidenote: Linon.]
[Sidenote: Allo.]
name of the 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
[Sidenote: Trowerin.]
into the 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 called Dée. East of Bala in like sort it receiueth the
[Sidenote: Ruddoch.]
[Sidenote: Cleton.]
Ruddoch, then the 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 hence the Dee goeth by
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