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vantage ; there are, in almost every instance, small 

 rivers flowing in or out of them. When tired of 

 your boat, you may forthwith repair to the stream, 

 which, being stocked by the pool from whence it 

 issues, will always afford good sport. 



BALA LAKE. 



Above that pool, and so beneath that flood, 

 Are salmon caught, and many a fish full good : 

 But in the same there will no salmon be, 

 And in that pool you shall no whiting see. 



CHURCHYARD'* Worthinesse of Wales* 



This lake, called also Llyn Tegid and Pimbee 

 Mere, is the largest in Wales, being about four 

 miles in length, and, in some places, nearly one in 

 breadth. The greatest depth, which is opposite 

 Bryn Golen, is about forty-six yards. When the 

 wind rushes from the mountains, at the upper end, 

 its overflowing occasions great damage : in stormy 

 weather, it receives a vast accession of water from the 

 mountain torrents, and rises to the height of seven 

 or eight feet above its ordinary level, covering a con- 

 siderable portion of the vales of Penllyn and Edeyr- 

 nion, and even endangering the safety of the town 

 itself. The river Dee has its source under Aran 

 Penllyn, a high mountain at the head of the lake, 

 through which it has been said, by Giraldus Cambren- 

 sis, Drayton, and others, to flow without mingling its 

 waters ; as the Rhone is fabled to pass through the 

 Lake of Geneva, and the classic Alpheus through the 



