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Updated: May 20, 2025
A patch of dreary-looking swamp was before him, covered with clumps of alder-bushes a true Slough of Despond. Dol Farrar knew none of the miseries of plunging through an alder-swamp, but he luckily recalled in time a warning from Cyrus that a slight wetting would render his moccasins useless.
"Pen y Coed," said I, "means the head of the wood. I suppose that in the old time the mountain looked over some extensive forest, even as the nunnery of Pengwern looked originally over an alder- swamp, for Pengwern means the head of the alder-swamp."
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