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of this truly Acherontic stream is about forty yards 

 south-west of the bridge, where it is confined to 

 narrow limits by the rocks, and is projected about 

 six feet over the ridge, into a basin at the depth of 

 eighteen feet. Its next leap is sixty feet, where it 

 rages ingulphed between protruding crags. The third 

 fall is diminished to twenty feet, from which it strug- 

 gles to the edge of the largest cataract, and pours in 

 one unbroken torrent down a precipice of one hun- 

 dred and ten feet. Bursting into light in a volume of 

 foam, which had before been obscured by the hang- 

 ing branches of the wide-spreading beech, it seems 

 to threaten, as it breaks against the opposing rocks, 

 to tear the mountains from their strong foundations. 

 The river, therefore, falls two hundred and eight 

 perpendicular feet, without allowing for the declivity 

 of the three pools. To this must be added one 

 hundred and fourteen, which makes, the perpendi- 

 cular height three hundred and twenty-two feet.* 



THE LERY 



Rises in the mountains not far from the Camddwr, 

 close to a house called Waun Hescog. Aftei a 

 course of seven miles from Tal y bout, it flows into 

 the sea near Moel ynys. 



THE DEYVI 



Rises in Merionethshire, and flows into the sea 

 near Melindwr. 



* Meyrick's Cardigan. 

 K 4* 



