Welsh Journals

in Dyfed, where there was something which looked like a cauldron something which any Dimetian would have called a messur y peir." For instance, there is a thing on the Fishguard Road to St. David's which looks like a loaf, and is, therefore called Mesur y Dorth" (" the measure of the loaf). Where, then, in Dyfed is that thing which looks like a pair" or cauldron, and which might be reasonably called mesur y pair" (" the measure of the cauldron") ? In the summer of 1898, before I had read the Mabinogion, or knew anything of Diwrnach Wyddel. I visited Moylgrove for the first time. There I noticed a most weird-looking formation in the cliff, a large cavity into which by some unseen passage the sea entered with every incoming tide. Fenton noticed it on his tour in the first decade of the last century, and this is what he says (Historical Tour, p. 538) "On the north side [of the pretty little dingle] I observe a curious opening in the cliff, nearly circular, admitting the sea through an arch at bottom, similar to those near St. (loven's, but not half so capacious." It is known as Pwll y Wrach," the" Witch's Pool;" but I very distinctly remember a lady living close by, and who had lived there from childhood, telling me she had always known it in English as The Witch's Cauldron." The inhabitants say that it is a marvel to see in stormy weather, for in such a time it seethes like a boiling pot. I paid it a subsequent visit on Tuesday, July 22nd last, in company with Mr. John Griffith (Pentrevor). At the first glimpse, and irres- pective of the story in the Llyfr Coch, Mr. Griffith felt certain that the old folk must have associated some explanatory legend, a kind of working hypothesis as to the origin and existence of so remarkable an object (as indeed is indicated by its present name). Of this at least we were assured, that whether Pwll-y- Wrach in Moylgrove be the place referred to in the story or not. it represents exactly what a Dimetian would understand by the expression messur y peir."