158 SURVEY OF THE SNOWDON REGION CHAP, v 



remains in it. We may thank our Saxon ancestors 

 for that blessing. 



. After breakfast started for the hills above 

 Llyn Bychan on the west side of the fault ; finished 

 them ; re-mapped Mynydd Danlyn, and crossed to 

 the other side by the lower end of Llyn Crafnant. 

 While loitering about, taking a final look, I spied 

 Aveline coming down anxiously, with his hat pulled 

 over his eyes, his coat-collar turned up, his gaiters 

 hanging about his heels, taking long strides and 

 looking out ahead, but never holloaing, as another 

 man might have done. So we joined and walked 

 merrily down to Trefriw together. 



* ^th December. Had a long consultation with 

 Aveline and Jukes [at Aber] on the maps, and proved 

 that Snowdon, Glyder, and all are not lower than the 

 Bala lime and ashes. Jukes and I then started for 

 the hills, and had a splendid day among the intrusive 

 traps. Aveline returned to Trefriw, and Selwyn 

 came up from Clynnog fawr. Joking and making 

 fun all of us all night.' 



The campaign in Wales had thus lasted for fully 

 six months, and was prolonged even into the stormy 

 and inclement weather of December. It had been 

 eminently successful, for a large tract of rough moun- 

 tainous ground and complicated geology had been 

 finished, and Ramsay had been able to join up the 

 boundary-lines of his area with those of his colleagues 

 on each side of him. And thus, turning his face 

 southwards, and paying a short visit of inspection to 

 Bristow in Dorsetshire, he was back in London before 

 the end of December, to begin the indoor labours of 

 another winter. 



