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Updated: June 7, 2025
"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.
"See the breadth of light and shadow," said Claude; "how the purple depth of the great lap of the mountain is thrown back by the sheet of green light on Lliwedd, and the red glory on the cliffs of Crib Coch, till you seem to look away into the bosom of the hill, mile after mile." "And so you do," said Headley. "I have learnt to distinguish mountain distances since I have been here.
He came to me hafter the ewent, and wanted me adwance 50 lb., so that he might purshew his fewgitif sister but I wasn't to be ad with that sort of chaugh there was no more money for THAT famly. "All the juilers, manchumakers, lacemen, coch bilders, apolstrers, hors dealers, and weddencake makers came pawring in with their bills, haggravating feelings already woondid beyond enjurants.
I like better to tell you about ugly blind old Tibbie than about beautiful young Kate. But you shall have your turn. Do not think that we old people do not care for what you care for. We want more than you want a something without which what you like best cannot last. "What did the coch stop for, Annie, lass?" asked Tibbie, as soon as the mail had driven on.
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.
And now the Earl of Gloucester employed his resources in strengthening his Glamorgan lordship to resist the threatened invasion of Llywelyn by building Castell Coch and Caerphilly. Llywelyn continued his victorious career as long as war lasted. In 1266 he inflicted a crushing defeat on Mortimer at Brecon.
A shell keep was a ring wall eight or ten feet thick, about thirty feet high, not covered in, and enclosing an open courtyard, round which were placed the buildings light structures, often wooden sheds, abutting on the ring wall such as one may see now in the courtyard of Castell Coch. The shell keep was the centre of Robert's castle, but not the whole.
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."
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