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the Berwyn range of mountains are seen to pe- 

 culiar advantage. Salmon, trout, grayling, perch, 

 jack, fyc. 



LLANWCHLLYN, five miles from Bala, at the con- 

 fluence of the Slew, the Twrch, and the Dee, all 

 which flow into the lake. This neighbourhood affords 

 fine angling, and is adorned with the most sublime 

 scenery ; the most remarkable feature of which is 

 Bwlch y Groes, or " the Pass of the Cross," one of 

 the most difficult and arduous in North Wales, en- 

 circled with precipitous mountains, occasionally 

 varied by verdant declivities and sheep-walks. The 

 pass itself is a dreary flat, approached by a steep, 

 narrow, tortuous path, terminating at the crucifix 

 from which it derives its name, and near which is a 

 beautiful cascade, formed by the Twrch, a rapid 

 mountain torrent rushing from the Arans, and 

 precipitating itself with violence over huge masses 

 of broken rock heaped on each other in its bed. 

 The water, thus diverted from its course, forces 

 itself through the fissures in the rocks, which are 

 occasionally interspersed with various plants that 

 have taken root in them, and descends with renewed 

 violence into its channel across the road. 



HAVODVADOG, four miles from Bala, on the Tre- 

 weryn. It is the first tributary of the Dee. A 

 good trout river. 



LLANYCIL, " the Church in the Retreat," so called 

 from its retired situation in a sequestered part of 

 the county, being nearly surrounded with moun- 

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