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«f stone and lime, [nt the time when AlexanJcr the Great
was subduing the world.]
And Coli, the son of CyUin, [the son of Caradawc, the
fon of Bran,'] Avho first made a mill ^γith a wheel, for the
race of the Ci/mry. And these three were bards, (gi)
In these documents, as they now stand, some degree of
confusion may be detected, it is the inevitable eftect of
transcript and comment, in ages, from which the key of the
knowledge contained in them was, by the mysteries of time,
withheld; but, upon the whole, they appear to be genuine
memorials of remote antiquity.
From the personifications, which occur in several of them,
it may be inferred, that something more is implied, than a
series of historical events, and that frequently they consist of
such allegories, or anigmata, as Druids are known to have
employed, in teaching their disciples.
Thus the three primary hards, or Druids, Plcnnÿdd,
Alazvn and Gwroti, No. XI. are>in their literal import, iight.
harmony, and energy.
In their national prepossession, they resemble the genuine
traditions of many other primitive people. The patriarchs
are made, almost exclusively, the fathers of the Cymry, and
the general events of early ages, are consigned particularly,
to the Island of Britain. This may be exemplified in the
account of the deluge. No. V.
*' Thi' waters burst forth — ^all lands were covered — all