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hollows open to the south-west and north-west, 

 within which the collected winds burst impetu- 

 ously through an opening on the ridge parallel 

 with the direction of the pool, and agitate its 

 waters with great violence. 



LLYN MAWR, the " great lake," near Llan- 

 wnnog. 



LLYN TARW, the " bull's lake." 



LLYN Du, the " black lake," in the same parish, 

 south of Llyn Mawr. 



GLAS LLYN, " blue lake," at the foot of Plin- 

 limmon. Red and common trout, eels. 



lie close to the body ; but I hold it better, if it be armed with 

 wire, to take off the hook and put the needle in at the hind- 

 most fin, and so to come forth at the gill, and it will hurt the 

 live fish the less.* So knit the arming with the live fish to 

 the line, then put off into maire or pond with the wind, in the 

 river with the stream : the more you put of them in the maire, 

 you are like to have the more pleasure ; for the river, three or 

 four will be sufficient." BARKER. 



* The whole of this proceeding is so atrociously cruel, that 

 no angler of the present day would practise it, but use a dead 

 bait instead. 



