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height of tempests), was so strong that I could hardly stand against 

 it. The top is covered with loose stones almost like the seaside. 

 Descended again over a very rocky place to near Llyn-y-Cwm, and 

 from thence to Llanberis by the same way we had ascended. 



July 12. Went to see the waterfall of Rhaiadr Cannent Mawr, 

 as it was very full on account of the rain that had fallen during the 

 last few days. It was very fine, as the water, besides going down, 

 the inclined part of the rock, shot clean over the side, and so down 

 at once into the hollow. We then went on to the lower end of the 

 lakes and were much pleased by the view from the bridge at the 

 bottom. We found in the river below the lakes Pilularia glohulifera^ 

 Lobelia Dortmanna, and Nymjphaea alba. The lakes, etc., were at least 

 a foot higher than usual through the rain. 



July 13. Started by the Capel Curig coach to see the E.haiadr-y- 

 Wenol. Saw it in very great perfection, it being very full of water. 

 Found near it Hymenophyllum Wilsoni, Polypodium Dryopteris, and a 

 large number of mosses. . . . About a mile nearer to Capel Curig than 

 the place where the Beddgelert road separates from the Llanberis. 

 we found Campanula hederacea in plenty, and in the Capel Curig 

 lake, Lobelia Dortmanna. 



July 1 4. Started to ascend Snowdon. ... It was rather hazy at 

 intervals as the clouds kept forming on the sides of the mountains 

 and going off again, but not so as to obscure the view to any great 

 degree ; we indeed saw it to great perfection. I counted twenty- 

 nine lakes in sight from the top, and was not very particular to 



include the whole We then set off botanizing in Clogwyn-y- 



Garnedd, and worked our way quite down from the top of Y-Wyddfa 

 nearly to Ffynnon las. I found two specimens of Chrysom. cerealis, 

 and we met with the following plants : Saxifraga nivalis in some 

 plenty, Cerastium latifolium, Poa alpina, Poa glauca, (?) Aspidium 

 Lonchitis, etc. 



July 16. Went up to Llyn-y-Cwm. . . . We worked the rocks 

 near Twll D<i and found plenty of Gnaphalium dioicum, one specimen 

 of Juniperis nana, and one of Faccineum Vitis-idaea. After we had 

 finished there, started up the mountain Glydr-y-Vawr, and soon 

 attained its highest point .... the height is about 3300 feet. 

 On the way down Holmes found Lycopodium annotinum in small 

 quantity, but not in fructification, and I found in the bogs near 

 Llyn-y-Cwm Eriophorum vaginatum in plenty. 



July 17. Went to-day to examine the rocks near Dolbadarn 

 Castle, having seen it mentioned that Hymenophyllum tunbridgense ^y 

 i.e. Trichomanes brevisetum grew there. We did not find it, but 

 found plenty of Hymenophyllum Wilsoni, some of the fronds in a 

 growing state, so as to look like fructification coming at the ends of 

 them. We then passed the river between the lakes and ascended 

 to the road at the top of the wooded part of the mountain near the 



