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each in a different direftion. Of its height I could 

 form no idea, for the top of the upper fall, by the 

 winding of the rocks, was .not vifible from below. 

 The rode that hangs immediately over the fall, 

 was, from its great height raid rude form, a fine 

 object in the landfcape ; and the whole of the 

 hollow, to fome diftance below the cataradt, was 

 'extremely grand, I attempted to climb to the upper 

 part, but the rocks were too perpendicular, and 

 too flippery, to fuifer the attempt without danger. 

 Therefore contenting myfelf with feeing as much as 

 I could from below, I crolTed the water, and crept 

 along, but not without difficulty, on the flielving 

 rocks, by the fide of the ftream, for near half a 

 mile. Here the banks clofed over my head, leaving 

 but a narrov/ chafm, from which the light was 

 altogether excluded by the dark foliage from each 

 fide, and I found myfelf entering, to appearance, 

 the mouth of a deep and horrid cavern. The fides 

 were too fleep for me to entertain any idea of 

 clambering up, and unlefs I chofe to fcramble back 

 again to the cataraft, I had no alternative but to 

 penetrate the place. The darknefs, fortunately, did 

 not extend far, and I foon found myfelf in a place 

 where the bank was fufficiently floping to admit of 

 my afeending to the meadov/s above ^ I was not a 

 little pleafed in having thus eafily efcaped from this 

 abode of horror. 



Regaining the road I had left, it led me along 

 ihe fide of Llyntecwyn Ucha, The Upper Fool of 



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