50 STUDIES OF NATURE 



dark and awful, which is quite a repetition of 

 the well-known Twll-Dhu, or Devil's Kitchen, 

 which, looking up from Idwal, you see on the 

 side of the Glydr Vawr. Even here there are 

 flowers. As we came up we saw the tormentil, 

 the harebell, and the blue milkworfc ; but we did 

 not expect to find any blossom so high as this. 

 But, sure enough, in a green plot, under the 

 very shadow of the crags, we come upon quite a 

 little garden of foxgloves. They are stunted, 

 and pale in colour, but beautiful when seen in 

 such a place. 



We turn now to that scene which is the 

 special object of our visit, and which it is 

 impossible to describe. Two or three years ago 

 a great waterspout broke on the ridge and 

 poured a tremendous flood down the mountain. 

 What that flood must have been we see from 

 what is around us. Along its course the very 

 bones of the hill, as it were, are laid bare ; 

 rocks, many tons in weight, have been hurled 



