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Often whilst discoursing with him I almost fancied that I was with Master Salisburie, Vaughan of Hengwrt, or some other worthy of old, deeply skilled in everything remarkable connected with wild "Camber's Lande." The Vicar and his Family Evan Evans Foaming Ale Llam y Lleidyr Baptism Joost Van Vondel Over to Rome The Miller's Man Welsh and English.
On my putting the question to him in Welsh, however, his countenance brightened up. "Dyna Llam Lleidyr, sir!" said he, pointing to a very narrow part of the stream a little way down. "And did the thief take it from this side?" I demanded. "Yes, sir, from this side," replied the man. I thanked him, and passing over the dry part of the river's bed, came to the Llam Lleidyr.
The day after, finding myself on the banks of the Dee in the upper part of the valley, I determined to examine the Llam Lleidyr or Robber's Leap, which I had heard spoken of on a former occasion. A man passing near me with a cart I asked him where the Robber's Leap was. I spoke in English, and with a shake of his head he replied "Dim Saesneg."
"Yonder," said he, pointing to some distance down the river. "Why is it called the Robber's Leap?" said I. "It is called the Robber's Leap, or Llam y Lleidyr," said he, "because a thief pursued by justice once leaped across the river there and escaped. It was an awful leap, and he well deserved to escape after taking it."
From the Llam y Lleidyr I went to the canal and walked along it till I came to the house of the old man who sold coals, and who had put me in mind of Smollett's Morgan; he was now standing in his little coal-yard, leaning over the pales.
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