Transcribed from the 1833 T. T. and J. Tegg edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Book cover] [Picture: The Mænai Bridge; Beaumaris Castle; Holyhead Church. London. Published by T. T. & J. Tegg, Cheapside, Oct. 1st 1832] SCENES IN NORTH WALES. WITH HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, LEGENDS, AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. BY G. N. WRIGHT, A. M. P. A. R. H. A. AUTHOR OF “WELSH TOPOGRAPHY,” “ILLUSTRATIONS OF IRELAND,” ETC. [Picture: Decorative graphic] Embellished with Thirty-six Engravings. * * * * * LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. T. AND J. TEGG, CHEAPSIDE: R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW; J. CUMMING AND W. F. WAKEMAN, DUBLIN. * * * * * CHISWICK: PRINTED BY C WHITTINGHAM. * * * * * PREFACE. THERE is a local interest attached to mountain scenery, arising not only from a natural concentration of grand and majestic objects, but also from a spirit of independence and ardent love of liberty with which the mountaineer, invariably, seems to be inspired. The great deeds of Leonidas were done amidst the rocks and glens;—Switzerland displays her hatred of tyranny in an undying affection for the memory of Tell;—while from the chivalrous exploits of Glandwr, brandishing high the torch of liberty, a stream of light has issued, that seems to have poured its rays into the deepest recesses of his native glens. The demi-anarchy of the feudal system occasioned the erection, in Gwynedd, of many stately castles, whose lonely ruins now adorn the petty kingdoms they once overawed. And in the violent struggles of the ancient Briton to preserve his wild home from Saxon intrusion, originated those yet more splendid palaces, that illustrate like monuments, or like medals, the history of those periods in which they were erected.