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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. 



Augiist 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. 



\^th. Out by Llyn bach and along the range of 

 hills to the Dinas road. Splendid day. 



2$th. 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*jth. 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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