190 PRINCIPAL FISHING STATIONS. 



beautiful but (to the angler) ruined lakes of Llan- 

 beris. 



THE GWYRVAI, 



A stream much resembling the Seiout in size and 

 character, takes a course nearly parallel with it, and 

 falls into the Menai. Abundance of salmon, trout, 

 Sfc. 



The principal Fishings Stations are, 



BETTWS Y COED, three miles south of Llanwrst. 

 This village is situated in a beautiful vale, sur- 

 rounded on all sides by the Caernarvonshire and 

 Denbighshire mountains, and near the confluence 

 of the Llugwy and the Con way. Over the former 

 of these rivers, about half a mile from the church, 

 is an iron bridge, of one noble arch, beautifully or- 

 namented with the rose, the shamrock, and the 

 thistle, with an inscription in Roman capitals, pur- 

 porting that it was erected in the year of the Battle 

 of Waterloo. There is also a bridge, of a very sin- 

 gular construction, over the latter river, called 

 Pont y Pair, consisting of four arches, resting upon 

 masses of precipitous rock, which, in high floods, 

 form several magnificent cascades below the bridge. 

 The three rivers, Conway, Llugwy, and Lleder, 

 unite in the parish ; and, in their course through this 

 mountainous district, form numerous and majestic 

 cataracts, called, "the Falls of the Llugwy, the 

 Machno, and the Conway;" the last of which, after 

 rushing violently through rocks of tremendous 



