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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. 



' 6tk 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 



