BALA-LAKE, Lynn-Tegid, or Pemble-Mere, a lake in Merioneth. It extends north-eastward to Bala; is 4 miles long, 1 mile broad, and more than 100 feet deep receives the river Dwfrdwy at its head, and discharges the Dee from its foot. Its shores are gravelly; it. borders are wooded, easy slopes; its flanks, hills of no great beauty, overlooked by interesting mountains. It waters abound with pike, and contain perch, roach, eels char, and gwyniad. The fishery belonged anciently to Basingwerk abbey; and is now the property of Sir W W. Wynn, who has a fishing-lodge at the head, called Glan-y-Llynn.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))