text:  The town has a noble body-guard of hills all round it; and perched high up on almost inaccessible ledges are little white-walled cottages that made us long for the wings of a bird to fly up and inspect them closer; no other mode of conveyance would be either speedy or safe for the sides of the mountains are nearly perpendicular and would have put Douglas's horse to its mettle when he was on a visit to Owen Glendowr