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13 Y modd yr eglurir y pum' dychymyg (enigmas) uchod ydyw fel hyn: "The first is explained by the mountains which surround the place; the second implies that on one side of the town there was a bridge, over which all travellers must pass; and the third, that on the other side they had to go under a wooden trough, which conveyed water from a rock, at a mile distant, to an over- shot mill. For the fourth he says, the bells, if plural, hung in a yew tree; and for the last, that tenements were divided into two or more tippling-houses, and that even chimneyless barns were used often for the same purpose."

Pellder Dolgellau o
Bala ...... 18 Milltir
Abermaw ...... 10 "
Caerlleon ...... 57 "
Machynlleth... ...... 15 "
Maentwrog ...... 18 "
Towyn ...... 16 "

Yn ol Cary Itenarary of the Great and Cross Roads in England and Wales, 1798, trafaelid â'r stage coaches fel y canlyn o Ddolgellau i Lundain a Manceinion: ä'r hen ffordd heibio capel Bethel (A.), Dwyryd, ac oddidan Rhug, a Chorwen:—

Llwybr y Llythyr-gerbyd o'r Brifddinas hyd Ddolgellau a olygid uchod, a'r pellder o'r lleoedd a nodir mewn milldiroedd a ffyr- longau. Wele'n canlyn eto groesffyrdd y goach fawr o Fanchester i Ddolgellau.