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By his journeys he became acquainted with many people in North Wales, and he hardly ever failed in obtaining from them much singular and valuable information of bye-gone days, which there and then he dotted down on scraps of paper, and afterwards transferred to note books, which still are in his possession.

Holy Wells of North Wales, and this he hopes to publish at no very distance period.

Fairies have, in Wales, at least three common and distinctive names, as well as others that are not nowadays used.

And there are families in Wales who are said to have Fairy blood coursing through their veins, but they are, or were, not so highly esteemed as were the offspring of the gods among the Greeks.

We are not, therefore, in Wales void of families of doubtful parentage or origin.

Lloyd, late schoolmaster of Llanfihangel-Glyn-Myfyr, a native of South Wales, who heard the tale in the parish of Llanfihangel.

They are described as Physicians of Rhys Gryg, a prince of South Wales, who lived in the early part of the thirteenth century.

The Llanfrothen Legend seems to account for a race of men in Wales differing from their neighbours in certain features.

That a race of men having these characteristics did exist in Wales is undoubted.

It is not therefore unlikely that if the lakes of Wales are explored they will yield evidences of lake-dwellers, and, however unromantic it may appear, the Lady of the Van Lake was only possibly a maiden snatched from her watery home by a member of a stronger race.

Celts on their advent to Wales found it inhabited by a race with whom they contracted marriages.

South Wales, of a feigned attempt on the part of the friends of the young woman about to get married to hinder her from carrying out her object.

In this way they could, and very likely did, occupy parts of Wales contemporaneously with their conquerors, who, through marriage, became connected with the mild race, whom they found in possession of the land.

Variants of this story are found in many parts of Wales, and in many continental countries.

In some parts of Wales it is or was thought that they were even so familiar as to borrow from men.