Welsh Journals

had been made to discover coal: and some smutty stuff very like that substance had been dug up, but the adventurers did not find encouragement enough to persevere." Ty Ehôs, Fishguard. The following is Professor Rhys' criticism, being a verbatim copy of his letter to the Editor of the Pembroke County Guardian:— A happy Xew Year to the readers of the Guardian, and especially to Mr. Wade-Evans, who has been fixing the locality of Porth Kerdin, and Mr. John Griffith, who has been helping him. They seem to me to have succeeded, and their letters are very suggestive, and may lead possibly to more identifications. Of course such a name as Pwll y Crochan could not help very much, as it is so common and the ambiguity of one like Trwyn Llwyd destroys its force by itself, as it may mean merely a grey headland, or a headland called after a person named Llwyd. The case is the same with Ty Llwyd, which might be either Grey House or Llwyd's House. The decisive point in Mr. Evans's argument is his being able to show Mesur y Pair' as a natural feature which could be readily described in that way. Then the minor arguments come in with considerable force not far from Mesur y Pair' you have the small creek for landing, with Ty Llwyd close by, and you can hardly conceive the coincidence being a mere accident. What may be regarded as an accident is the disappearance of the name Porth Kerdin, which seems also to have been not an uncommon one. As to the little river A wen's name, that sounds to me very like the pronunciation of the Irish word for river, namely, amhain,' the equivalent of our afon/ Then Ceibwr is practically the same name which occurs in the Book of Llan Ddv as Kibor, for the district around Cardiff; so it looks as if the names were Afon (Amhain) Cibwr, and Aber Cibwr, and that the Irish word amhain' (whence possibly the present Awen) had taken on itself the functions of the complete name that is all. It is interesting to have Eenton's statement that Moylgrove had formerly 200 acres of wood and forest, covering ground which was in his time, as he says, totally denuded but hope lie had reasons beyond those supplied by the names, TrewyddeI and Moylgrove. On this point one would like to know what Dr. Henry Owen has to say. In the meantime I return to Trewyddel and Ty Llwyd, which I accept as meaning Llwyd's House, that is, the house of the Llwyd of the Mabinoyi of Manawyddan, called in the Culhwch Llwydeu, which 1 am