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"This house, and those yonder," pointing to the cottages past which I had come, "are Pentre y Dwr. "Is it called Pentre Dwr," said I, "because of the water of the brook?" "Likely enough," said she, "but I never thought of the matter before." She was blear-eyed, and her skin, which seemed drawn tight over her forehead and cheek-bones, was of the colour of parchment. I asked her how old she was.

Beyond, the coast rises up from the low sandy level, and rounding the South Foreland, on which is a fine electric lighthouse of modern construction, we come to the chalk-cliffs, on top of which are the dark towers of Dover Castle, from whose battlements the road descends to the town along the water's edge and in the valley of the little stream that gives the place its name the Dour, which the Celts called the Dwr or "water," and the Romans the Dubræ.

I looked about me in the hope of seeing somebody of whom I could ask a question or two, but seeing no one, I turned to the south intending to regain Llangollen by the way of the monastery. Coming to a cottage I saw a woman, to all appearance very old, standing by the door, and asked her in Welsh where I was. "In Pentre Dwr," said she.

If we had only that written form on the one hand, and Durocornovium on the other, even the boldest etymologist would hardly venture to suggest that they had any connection with one another. Of course the common prefix Duro, is only the Welsh Dwr, water, and its occurrence in a name merely implies a ford or river.

In a little time I found myself in the heart of a romantic winding dell, overhung with trees of various kinds, which a tall man whom I met told me was called Cwm Dwr Llanwrda, or the Watery Coom of Llanwrda; and well might it be called the Watery Coom, for there were several bridges in it, two within a few hundred yards of each other.

At length I saw the Abbey looming amidst the darkness, and John Jones said that, we were just above the fountain. We descended, and putting my head down I drank greedily of the dwr santaidd, my guide following my example. We then proceeded on our way, and in about half-an-hour reached Llangollen. I took John Jones home with me. We had a cheerful cup of tea.

How is it that one of the names of the Ganges is Welsh; for what is the difference between Dhur, a name of that river, and dwr, the common Welsh word for water? How is it that aequor, a Latin word for the sea, so much resembles AEgir, the name of the Norse God of the sea? and how is it that Asaer, the appellative of the Northern Gods, is so like Asura, the family name of certain Hindu demons?

"Those hogs are too fat to drive along the road," said I at last to the latter. "We brought them in a cart as far as the Pentre Dwr," said the man on horseback, "but as they did not like the jolting we took them out." "And where are you taking them to?" said. "To Llangollen," said the man, "for the fair on Monday." "What does that big fellow weigh?" said I, pointing to the largest hog.

Robert Lleiaf Prophetic Englyn The Second Sight Duncan Campbell Nial's Saga Family of Nial Gunnar The Avenger. "AV i dir Mon, cr dwr Menai, Tros y traeth, ond aros trai." "I will go to the land of Mona, notwithstanding the water of the Menai, across the sand, without waiting for the ebb."

A man who could speak Spanish addressed him in that language as a foreigner "'I can't tell you how it was, sir, said he, looking me very innocently in the face, 'but I was forced to speak Spanish to you." At Pentre Dwr the man with the pigs heard his remarks on pigs and said: "I see you are in the trade and understand a thing or two."