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"That's not my case," said the stout man, "I have got to go ten miles, as far as Cerrig Drudion, from which place I came this afternoon in a wehicle." "Do you reside at Cerrig Drudion?" said I.
Well, sir, the consciousness of not having deserved them should be your consolation." "Sir," said the doctor, taking off his hat, "you are infinitely kind." "You call this an obscure place," said I "can that be an obscure place which has produced a poet? I have long had a respect for Cerrig y Drudion because it gave birth to, and was the residence of a poet of considerable merit."
II. Names of lesser features, as "Bryn y Saeth," Hill of the Dart; "Llyn Llyngclys," Lake of the Engulphed Court; "Ceven y Bedd," the Ridge of the Grave; "Rhyd y Saeson," the Saxons' Ford. III. Names of mixed natural and artificial objects, as "Coeten Arthur," Arthur's Coit; "Cerrig y Drudion," the Crag of the Heroes; which involve actions.
"May she long be a comfort to you!" "Thank you are you the mistress of the house?" "I am the grandmother." "Are the people in the house?" "They are not they are at the chapel." "And they left you alone?" "They left me with my God." "Is the chapel far from here?" "About a mile." "On the road to Cerrig y Drudion?" "On the road to Cerrig y Drudion."
Towards the west, at an immense distance, rose a range of stupendous hills, which I subsequently learned were those of Snowdon about ten minutes' walking brought me to Cerrig y Drudion, a small village near a rocky elevation, from which, no doubt, the place takes its name, which interpreted, is the Rock of Heroes.
Cerrig y Drudion The Landlady Doctor Jones Coll Gwynfa The Italian Men of Como Disappointment Weather Glasses Southey. THE inn at Cerrig y Drudion was called the Lion whether the white, black, red or green Lion, I do not know, though I am certain that it was a lion of some colour or other.
I had no doubt that he had told Doctor Jones that I had claimed acquaintance with him, and that the doctor, not having recollected me, had denied that he knew anything of me, for I observed that he looked at me very suspiciously. I took my former seat, and after a minute's silence said to Doctor Jones, "I think, sir, I had the pleasure of seeing you some time ago at Cerrig Drudion?"
"I was not aware of that fact," said the doctor, "pray what was his name?" "Peter Lewis," said I; "he was a clergyman of Cerrig y Drudion about the middle of the last century, and amongst other things wrote a beautiful song called Cathl y Gair Mwys, or the melody of the ambiguous word." "Surely you do not understand Welsh?" said the doctor. "I understand a little of it," I replied.
My breakfast concluded, I paid my bill, and after inquiring the way to Bangor, and bidding adieu to the kind landlady and her daughter, set out from Cerrig y Drudion. My course lay west, across a flat country, bounded in the far distance by the mighty hills I had seen on the preceding evening.
Some time ago he came to Cerrig Drudion, and was so much pleased with the place, the landlady, and her daughters, that he has made it his headquarters ever since.
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