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"The gentleman is our countryman," said he to the other after I had passed. I was now descending the side of a pretty valley, and soon found myself at Pentraeth Coch.
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"And where will you find a lletty for night, gentleman?" said the miller's wife. "This is a poor place, but if you will make use of our home you are welcome." "I need not trouble you," said I, "I return this night to Pentraeth Goch where I shall sleep." "Well," said the miller, "whilst you are at Llanfair I will accompany you about. Where shall we go to first?"
I little thought when I was looking from the road near Pentraeth Coch yesterday on that hill, and the bay and strand below it, and admiring the tranquillity which reigned over all, that I was gazing upon the scene of one of the most tremendous conflicts recorded in history or poetry." "Dear me," said the old reaper; "and whom may it have been between? the French and English, I suppose."
The carboniferous limestone occupies a broad area S. of Ligwy Bay and Pentraeth, and sends a narrow spur in a south-westerly direction by Llangefni to Malldraeth sands. Limestone occurs again on the N. coast about Llanfihangel and Llangoed; and in the S.W. round Llanidan on the border of the Menai Strait. Puffin Island is made of carboniferous limestone.
"You must go first," said he, "to Traeth Coch which in Saxon is called the 'Red Sand. In the village called the Pentraeth which lies above that sand, I was born; through the village and over the bridge you must pass, and after walking four miles due north you will find yourself in Llanfair eithaf, at the northern extremity of Mon. Farewell!
"The Red Tavern?" said I. "How is it that so many of your places are called Goch? there is Pentraeth Goch; there is Saint Pedair Goch, and here at Llanfair is Tafarn Goch." The miller laughed. "It will take a wiser man than I," said he, "to answer that question." The repast over I rose up, gave my host thanks, and said, "I will now leave you, and hunt up things connected with Gronwy."
That ever Saxon should ask me about Gronwy Owen, and his birth-place! I scarcely believe you to be a Saxon, but whether you be or not, I repeat farewell." Coming to the Menai Bridge I asked the man who took the penny toll at the entrance, the way to Pentraeth Coch.
THE village of Pentraeth Goch occupies two sides of a romantic dell that part of it which stands on the southern side, and which comprises the church and the little inn, is by far the prettiest, that which occupies the northern is a poor assemblage of huts, a brook rolls at the bottom of the dell, over which there is a little bridge: coming to the bridge I stopped, and looked over the side into the water running briskly below.
I had some thoughts of crossing to the northern side of the bay, then, bearing the north- east, wend my way to Amlwch, follow the windings of the sea-shore to Mathafarn eithaf and Pentraeth Coch, and then return to Bangor, after which I could boast that I had walked round the whole of Anglesey, and indeed trodden no inconsiderable part of the way twice.
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