8 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1830—32 



On the descent towards Beddgelert, which led us along a ridge not 

 so wide as the length of my stick ; the path followed this narrow 

 ridge for I should suppose about half-a-mile, when it descended one 

 side of it into a very boggy valley, in which after following the path 

 for a good way we quite lost all trace of it, and had a great deal of 

 trouble to find our way to the road, which we reached at about 

 three miles from Beddgelert. 



Sept 10. Left Carnarvon, but did not arrive at Bangor in time 

 for the Shrewsbury coach. 



Sept. 11. Started at 7 a.m. for Salop. At Capel Curig a gentle- 

 man got upon the coach to go as far as Bettws-y-Coed, who, 

 when we stopped for breakfast at a house not far beyond Capel 

 Curig, said he should walk on to Khaiadr-y-Wenol. I obtained a 

 crust of bread and some cheese, and accompanied him, and was well 



repaid for my trouble by the great beauty of the fall On a 



high hill near Llangollen is situated the ruin of Dinas Bran Castle, 

 and in a fine valley near it Valle Crucis Abbey, and the very small 

 remains of the house of Owen Glyndwyr. 



Sept 12. Arrived at Ludlow, and took up my quarters at my 

 aunt Rogers'. 



Sept 13. Went with Mrs. Eogers to Stanage Park, through 

 Leinterdine and Brampton Brian, near which last place on the right 

 is situated the hill on which the camp of Caractacus was situated 

 before the last battle with the Romans, and on the left the hill 

 where the Roman camp was situated ; both camps are I am told 

 very easily to be traced. (N.B. — The above is doubted by some 

 antiquaries, but believed by most.) 



Sept 16. At Ludlow, saw Castle, etc. 



Sept 17. Left Ludlow at 2.30 p.m. Arrived Hereford at 7. 

 Sept 19. To Exeter, where my mother was ill. 

 ' Octlb. To Cambridge. 



Nov. 2. Paid life composition as F. L. S. 



1831. Jan. 29. Went into College, New Court C, left hand top 

 rooms. 



May 19. Henslow's party to Gamlingay. 



May 22. Henslow's party to Wood Ditton. Went to Sawtry, 

 Hunts, to entomologize, and returned to Cambridge on the 29th. 



1832. June 25. Started from Bath by the Cheltenham mail, passed 

 Tetbury and Cirencester, at which they had just been renewing the 

 church porch in the same style as the original part ; it has the town 

 hall over it. . . . At about two miles from Cheltenham is a country 

 church having a very fine circular window, but, as I heard, very 

 much injured by having been partly filled with modern painted 

 glass. 



