A
Village Between Lampeter In Cardiganshire And Llandovery In
Caermarthenshire, Still Bears The Name Of Cynwil Caeo, And, From Its
Picturesque Situation And The Remains Of Its Mines, Which Were
Probably Worked By The Romans, Deserves The Notice Of The Curious
Traveller.
{54} The lake of Brecheinoc bears the several names of Llyn
Savaddan, Brecinau-mere, Llangorse, and Talyllyn Pool, the
Two
latter of which are derived from the names of parishes on its banks.
It is a large, though by no means a beautiful, piece of water, its
banks being low and flat, and covered with rushes and other aquatic
plants to a considerable distance from the shore. Pike, perch, and
eels are the common fish of this water; tench and trout are rarely,
I believe, (if ever), taken in it. The notion of its having
swallowed up an ancient city is not yet quite exploded by the
natives; and some will even attribute the name of Loventium to it;
which is with much greater certainty fixed at Llanio-isau, between
Lampeter and Tregaron, in Cardiganshire, on the northern banks of
the river Teivi, where there are very considerable and undoubted
remains of a large Roman city. The legend of the town at the bottom
of the lake is at the same time very old.
{55} That chain of mountains which divides Brecknockshire from
Caermarthenshire, over which the turnpike road formerly passed from
Trecastle to Llandovery, and from which the river Usk derives its
source.
{56} This mountain is now called, by way of eminence, the Van, or
the height, but more commonly, by country people, Bannau Brycheinog,
or the Brecknock heights, alluding to its two peaks.
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