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are said to be excellent, and afford good sport 

 when in the humour. They are, however, ex- 

 ceedingly capricious : and I have never had a 

 day to throw away in climbing the hills, without 

 any certainty of having sport when I arrived at 

 the spot. 



Tal-y-llyn belongs to Sir Eobert Vaughan, who 

 built the inn, which is now an exceedingly well 

 conducted comfortable house, though scarcely 

 large enough, during the season, for all who 

 would wish to take up their quarters there. 

 One additional large room as a coffee room, with 

 bed-rooms built over it, would add greatly to the 

 comfort and accommodation of the house; as it 

 is, many who come there to fish are obliged to 

 put up with very inferior accommodation in the 

 immediate neighbourhood, or drive to Dolgelly 

 or Machynlleth, both of them nine miles distant, 

 for the night. 



There are three boats on the lake, all of them 

 the property of Sir Eobert Vaughan, but he 

 very kindly permits them to be used by visitors 

 staying at the inn. The use of the boats, how- 

 ever, and all fishing, is, as a matter of course, 

 forbidden on Sundays ; nor would one suppose 

 any person pretending to the character of a 

 gentleman would seek to infringe this rule. 

 Such was, however, . the case on one occasion 



