DOLGELLE TO MACHYNLLETH, 4^ 



or the feat of Idris, Is thought to imply that he had 

 an obfervatory, or ftudy, on the fummit of the 

 mountain. Thefe fuppofitions, however, feem found- 

 ed on a very uncertain bafis. 



There had been much rain during the night, in 

 confequence. pf which the guide took me along the 

 fide of a rivulet, which flows from one of the hol- 

 lows above, to fee a fmall catarad. The torrent 

 was thrown down the face of a fleep rock in a white 

 flieet of foam, thrice broken in its defcent. It might 

 perhaps be more properly denominated a cafcade, 

 for, although it was extremely pretty, it was on fo 

 fmall a fcale, as to be devoid of much of the gran- 

 deur that is ufual in waterfalls that boafl any degree 

 of pifturefque beauty. — Above this, on the fame 

 ftream, another ftill more fmall and contraded was 

 pointed out to me. The height of the latter rock 

 was not more than feven or eight yards, and the 

 whole fcene would have appeared very trifling, had 

 it not been omarnented by three majeflic oaks, 

 whofe branches, whilfl they almoft concealed the 

 ftream, added greatly to its beauty. 



Croffmg the rivulet, I went for a little way along 

 its bank, and was much pleafed with feveral other 

 cafcades that were formed in its defcent. After a '^ 

 while I arrived in the mountain hollow, that con- 

 tains the waters of 



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