As a single instanceIt is a provable and proven factas you may see from Mr. Ramsay's survey of North Walesthat over a large tract to the south of Snowdon, between Port Madoc and Barmouth, there has been ground off and carried away a mass of solid rock 20,000 feet thick; thick enough, in fact, if it were there still, to make a range of mountains as high as the Andes.

His most ambitious poems are Thalaba, a tale of Arabian enchantment; The Curse of Kehama, a medley of Hindoo mythology; Madoc, a legend of a Welsh prince who discovered the western world; and Roderick, a tale of the last of the Goths.

And then land, if you like, at Port Madoc, as I meant to do; and there are my rooms at Beddgelert lying empty.

The Waterwitch is lounging off Port Madoc, waiting for her crew.

The only love scene, as far as we can recollect, in Madoc, consists of the delicate attentions which a savage, who has drunk too much of the Prince's excellent metheglin, offers to Goervyl.

Too, too secure in youthful pride, By them my friend, my Hoel, died, Great Cian's son; of Madoc old He ask'd no heaps of hoarded gold; Alone in Nature's wealth array'd, He ask'd and had the lovely maid.

It was constructed merely for the carriage of slates from Festiniog to Port-Madoc, and some years later another was built from the slate quarries at Penrhyn to the port of Bangor.

Both father and son accompanied prince Madoc to North America in the twelfth century.

Southey, Madoc (1805).

Slain in battle by Madoc.

Southey, Madoc (1805).

Lincoya, being doomed for sacrifice, fled for refuge to Madoc, the Welsh Prince, who had recently landed on the North American coast, and was kindly treated by him.

Again, when Prince Madoc was entrapped, she contrived to release him, and assisted the prince to carry off young Hoel.

Southey, Madoc (1805).

Southey, Madoc, vi. (1805).

Perhaps there she will meet with some young descendants of Madoc, to be her friends; at any rate, her looks may retain that sweet, wild beauty, that is soon made to vanish from eyes which look too much on shops and streets, and the vulgarities of city "parties.

"Not that I believe North America to have been first peopled so lately as in the twelfth century, the period of Madoc's migration.

* Prince Madoc (No. 4.

In conclusion, permit me to cite Southey versus Catlin:"That country," says the author of Madoc "has now been fully explored; and wherever Madoc may have settled, it is now certain that no Welsh Indians are to be found upon any branches of the Missouri" (Preface, note written in 1815).

In conclusion, permit me to cite Southey versus Catlin:"That country," says the author of Madoc "has now been fully explored; and wherever Madoc may have settled, it is now certain that no Welsh Indians are to be found upon any branches of the Missouri" (Preface, note written in 1815).

POWEL, H. PENRY, Castle Madoc, Brecknock.

A Welsh prince named Madoc, flying before the Saxons, is said to have reached America.

" "Madoc," corrected Thurstane.

"Well, Madoc then," replied Aunt Maria rather pettishly, for she was dreadfully tired, and moreover she didn't like Thurstane.

MADOC, a Welshman who, according to Welsh tradition, discovered America 300 years before Columbus, after staying in which for a time he returned, gave an account of what he had seen and experienced, and went back, but was never heard of more; his story has been amplified by Southey in an epic.