Cylchgronau Cymru

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Irrjj^alogia €&Aifam NEW SERIES, No. IX.—JANUARY, 1852. KIDWELLY CASTLE. DESCRIPTION. The reader who places before him the two sheets, 37 and 41, of the Ordnance Survey, may observe, between the ranges of Penbre and Mynydd-Sulen on the east, and Mynnydd-Garreg and Llangyndeyrn on the west, a valley of about ten miles in length, and from one and a-half to three in breadth. The head waters of its stream spring from the well known elevation of Mynydd- mawr, and its mouth opens upon the Bristol Channel, between the estuaries of the Llwchwr and the Towy, in the bay of Caermarthen. This is the valley of the Gwendraeth (white-strath)— " Gwendra that with such grace delib'rately doth glide"— one of the larger rivers of Caermarthen. West of this valley, between it and the Towy, but of much smaller dimensions than either, is a second valley and stream, tributary to the former, and bearing, like it, the name of Gwendraeth (" fach," or " the less," being its distinction). The rivers meet in a sort of estuary, chiefly formed by the " Gwendraeth-fawr." These valleys are traversed by the roads leading from the strait and tower of Llwchwr to the castles of Llan- stephan and Caermarthen, as well as by the northern and ARCH. CAMB., NEW SERIES, VOL. III. B