1 62 SURVEY OF THE SNOWDON REGION CHAP, v 



Yet the sun shone almost warmly, and having finished 

 my work, I lay down on a big stone on Cefn-yr-Arrig 

 and gazed on the deep shadows of Yr Elen and 

 Ffynnon Caseg, the peaks of Carnedd Dafydd, and 

 Y Glyder fawr, the great flats of Anglesey, and the 

 distant outlines of Man and Ireland ; and as I looked 

 I felt my heart soften, and I arose a better man again. 

 Came home over Y Foel Fras, probably the last time 

 I shall be on it. 



On the 1 8th of the same month he wrote to 

 Aveline asking if he could recollect how many years 

 the Survey had been at work in Glamorganshire, for, 

 said he, * in six weeks or so all this North Wales will 

 be done, and I want, if possible, to compare times. 



On the 3ist, in a letter to Salter from Caernarvon, 

 he writes, Selwyn and I are here putting a final touch 

 to all the difficulties and erst-seeming contradictions 

 on this side the Straits. Marry, it comes out 

 smoothly, except in so far that I fell on top o the Rivals 1 

 yesterday, and so bruised my right shoulder that even 

 writing is not a pleasant exercise for the arm. That 

 is the beginning, I fear ; what say you ? Is it not 

 terrible to think that now, when just finishing Wales, it 

 is yet possible that I may this summer be found at the 

 base of a cliff, with a bloody crown and my heels in 

 the air ? 



On the 6th June, while still revising with Selwyn 

 from Caernarvon, he writes thus to Aveline : One long 

 fine day will do for us here now, and a day or two s 

 drawing. Then hey ! for the sections. But first I 

 purpose a run to Malvern for two days, to put in some 

 alluvium left out by Phillips, and without which we 

 can t publish that quarter sheet. I am a little 



1 Or Yr Eifl, a three-peaked hill (1887 feet) in the Lleyn peninsula. 



