166 PRINCIPAL FISHING STATIONS. 



Near the village are two fine cataracts, called the 

 Falls of the Cynvael : the upper is composed of 

 three steep rocky precipices, over which the waters 

 of the Cynvael are impelled into a dark deep basin, 

 overshadowed by flanking rocks. In the pools 

 below these falls are numbers of very fine salmon 

 and trout. 



About three hundred yards farther, the river is 

 crossed by a rustic stone bridge ; and at an equal 

 distance lower occurs the other cataract, consisting 

 of a broad sheet of water, sweeping over a slightly 

 shelving rock, about forty feet high, from the bottom 

 of which it rushes, with murmuring impetuosity, 

 through a narrow chasm, glistening among the loose 

 fragments that oppose its progress ; and, falling from 

 slope to slope, at length gains a smoother channel, 

 and winds placidly through the vale to its junction 

 with the Dwyrhyd. 



This is a capital place. Fail not to try at the 

 bottom of these falls, and also in the river beyond. 

 In the warm months, the stream occasionally ap- 

 pears, towards nightfall, quite alive, from the con- 

 stant ripple produced by the rising of the fish. 

 The only flies necessary are the March brown, 

 the wren's tail, the dark and light blue duns, 

 the coch y body ; and, in the months of September 

 and October, a fly with body of the sandy fur from 

 between a hare's fore leg, winged with a rail's 

 feather. 



