.ig6 CORW^N to BALA. 



caftern bank of the pool. From near the church of 

 Llangower, a pleafing vale was feen to open on the 

 oppofite fide, bounded by mountains, and clofed at 

 the end by one of the Arrenigs. 



I had pafled the head of the pool fomewhat more* 

 than half a mile, when I found the narro\v lane which 

 leads to Llanwchllyn, Tbe Church above the Lake^ 

 I left the road, and foon afterwards entered the 

 Vale of Twrch. Nature is hen in all her majefly 

 here ; but as lord Lyttleton obferved of the Berwyn 

 mountains, " it is the majefly of a tyrant frowning 

 over the ruins and defolation of a country." There 

 were no marks of habitations or culture ; and heath, 

 fnofs, lichens, and a few gralTes, feemed the only 

 vegetation. The furrounding mountains were as 

 rude as defeription can paint : the mofh prominent 

 of thefe wa-s Arran Benllyn, which here prefented 

 only a feries of naked crags and precipices. — From 

 hence I crofled the river Twrch, The Biirroiver *. 



Phenomenon c.-vlled Daear-Dor. 



s My guide now pointed out a piece of land, of 

 confiderable extent, nearly covered with innumerable 

 maifes of broken rocks. Thefe, he faid, had all 

 been conveyed thither in the fummer of 1781, by 

 what the inhabitants of the mountains call Daear- 



* The Welfh word Twrch fignifies a hog : this river, there- 

 fore, feems to derive its name from its fometimes impetaoufly 

 tumbling along the ftones or earth tliat oppofe its progrefs. 



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