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. No sleep at Abergwailas owing to green 

 tea and fleas. Everything dirty. Started at ten, 

 Aveline and I taking different routes. We met at five, 

 having each traced some ten miles of winding boundary 

 and meeting to a nicety. We got home to Pen y bont 

 at nine, having walked thirty-five miles and fasted 

 twelve hours. Mutton chops and bottled porter. 



Aitgiist 2nd. Left [Dolaucothi] after lunch. Got 

 awfully drenched on Lampeter Mountain ; stayed at 

 Lampeter two hours. Rode to Aberaeron ; flood so 

 great I was obliged to stay two hours there. Rode 

 on ; bridges all gone ; forded the foaming torrents with 

 difficulty ; so late when I got to Llanrhystyd that I 

 stayed at Lewis. 



$rd. Rode on at half- past six to Aberystwith. 

 Breakfasted at the Lion. Called and spent half the 

 day with Fosset and the Downies. Rode on to Dol- 

 gelli, and got there at half-past twelve at night. Slept 

 at the inn. 



i9//. Out by Llyn bach and along the range of 

 hills to the Dinas road. Splendid day. 



25/7*. Out on Rhobell fawr. 1 Excellent day s 

 work. 



26tk. Out above Llanfachreth. Home to dinner 

 at six. Found Sir Henry dining in the coffee-room. 

 Dined with the cricketers, and had a chat with Sir H. 

 after. 



2*]th. Out with Sir H. over Cader ; got many 

 wrinkles. Met a car at Tal-y-llyn ; home to dinner 

 at seven. Selwyn and I dined with Sir Henry. Sir H. 



1 This interesting but difficult piece of geology was the subject of much care 

 ful exploration in later years both by Ramsay and Selwyn. When the survey of 

 North Wales was almost completed, Ramsay wrote to Aveline (28th June 1853), 

 I have often been prone to consider Rhobell as probably one of the centres of 

 eruption. 



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