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broken stones, grey crags, and deep hollows, that 

 continues a considerable distance. In the damp re- 

 cesses of the rocks about the fall, the Starry Saxifrage 

 (Sascifraga stellaris^) w*as prettily in flower, and Wa- 

 ters Avens (Geum rivale) near a crag above it. In 

 the broken ground along the descent of the stream 

 many fine old battered and distorted Birch and 

 Mountain-Ash trees were growing, the latter always 

 in combination with falling water in "Wales, and their 

 red berries giving character to such wild secluded 

 scenery. The Marsh Hawk' s-beard (Orepis paludosa,) 

 still in flower also adorned the rocks close to the 

 waters, as well as the leafy Northern Hawkweed 

 (THeracium boreale), and masses of the Meadow- 

 sweet (Spiraea ulmaria) scented the air. Many Mosses 

 and Jungerrnannia3 also appeared about the moist 

 crevices of the broken rocks. After wandering for 

 some time among the fissures and ledges of this ro- 

 mantic scene, I returned down the valley to Ehydy- 

 bont, where I passed the Twrch by a wooden bridge 

 at the " meeting of the waters," and then another 

 stream by a number of leaping-stones through which 

 the waters struggled fiercely as they swept down from 

 the dark recesses of Arran. 



I now took a path by the side of this last-mentioned 

 stream, which continued roughly brawling among 

 rounded quartzose stones, brought down evidently 

 from the entrails of the mountain, and as I left its 

 side the deep coomb of its birth opened before me on 

 the left with a steep green glacis. After passing a 

 rough cottage, whose roof was covered with polypody 

 and stonecrop (Sedum anglicmn), I struck off up the 

 mountain side till I came to an extensive bog, the 



