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The Vale of Llangollen -- S. Collen -- A Breton Llangollen -- Dinas Bran -- Maelor -- The old maids -- The church -- Vale Crucis -- The pillar of Eliseg -- Plas Eliseg -- Owen ab Cadwgan and Nest -- End of Owen -- Corwen -- Church rebuilt -- English and French capitals to pillars -- Inscribed stones -- Cup-markings -- Caer Drewyn -- Owen Gwynedd and Henry II. -- Rûg -- Gruffydd ab Cynan -- Image of Derfel Gadarn -- Burning of Friar Forest -- Pennant Melangell -- Patroness of hares -- The Welsh harper -- Different kinds of harps -- Satire on harpers.
THE Vale of Llangollen is proverbial for its beauty, and possibly because it has been so spoken, written, and sung about, it disappoints at first sight, but it is only at first sight that it does disappoint. Its beauties grow on one. The really finest portion is at Berwyn, which is the next station on the line to Bala, and not at the town that gives its name to the vale.