1 849 FIELD- WORK ARO UND LLANBERIS 149 



' i \th. Over the hills tracing the Bwlch-y-gywion 

 trap, and so back by the felspar stuff up some hideous 

 banks. It was exceedingly fatiguing, but I got a good 

 day's work done.' 



LLANBERIS, \2thjuly 1849. 



MY DEAR TALBOT At length since Monday last 

 we have had fine weather here, and I have worked so 

 hard that I am quite fatigued to-day, and stay at home 

 to despatch some maps, and knock off the arrears of 

 correspondence. I think the ground I am at present at 

 work on is really the most fatiguing I have yet experi- 

 enced in Wales. It is not merely walking up and 

 along steep places, but actual climbing, hands and 

 feet, and on hills so high that it often takes two or 

 three hours to get to the district in the first instance. 

 I fancied ere I came I should be done ere this, but I 

 haven't more than a half or two-thirds finished yet. 



' 1 6tk. Started at half-past ten, and by dint of sharp 

 walking was at Twll-du by twelve. Down to Llyn 

 Idwal, and traced all the lines round and through the 

 lake and down to the lower margin of Llyn Ogwen, and 

 then up by the Pass-y-benglog and the west ridge of 

 Cwm Bochlwyd, tracing a line to the top of Y Glyder 

 fawr. It was dreadfully tough work, and it was past 

 six by the time I got to the top of Glyder, so that 

 though I would fain have carried on my line, I was 

 somewhat tired both in the legs and of the subject, 

 and therefore deemed it wiser to leave its prosecution 

 for a fresh day. Overtook a nice-looking young 

 fellow in the Pass with a knapsack on his back, and 

 entering into conversation, we walked down together. 

 It lightened the way a bit. Dined at nine. 



* 26tk. Immediately after breakfast started on a 



