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long tramp round by Capel Curig way, tracing the 

 outside boundary of the Glyder fawr trap, and intend 

 ing to come home over Trefan. But it was too far, 

 and, besides, the work would lead in another direction. 

 So I came back down that rough hillside above the 

 lake and Pen-y-gwryd. It is a terribly stony place. I 

 got into the Pass about six, and was shortly after right 

 well pleased to spy a large two -horse return car 

 coming down the road. Jumped therein. Just about 

 Pont-y-gromlech heard a shouting, and looking up 

 the side of Glyder, saw all my fellow-lodgers and 

 Dent rushing down the hill. They all got in or on 

 the affair, two hanging on behind like footmen. So 

 with mickle laughter we drove home to dinner. 



6t/i August. As I could not sleep quiet in my 

 grave had I not been up Snowdon, to see that bit on 

 the Beddgelert side of Cwm-y-Clogwyn that bothered 

 Selwyn and me so much, I revisited it to-day, and 

 came back over the top. No one was there but 

 myself. 



lotk. Started from Llanberis at nine. Met a 

 Capel Curig car, and changed into it at the top of the 

 Pass, and was at work by half-past eleven or twelve 

 on this side of Y Glyder fach. The mist persecuted 

 me dreadfully. It came rolling down as soon as 

 I got up a considerable height, and then, when I 

 began to descend a little, would partially clear up ; 

 but rushing down again, I was forced to try the 

 section on the low ground, and then having made 

 out a certain amount of that, I traced a line up the 

 hill. No sooner had the mist got me well up than, 

 shifting his quarters, he rushed down the valley, 

 obscured Y Trefan, thicker and thicker, boiling and 

 seething, and if I but looked at a bit of ground, down 



