192 PRINCIPAL FISHING STATIONS. 



from the road. These are finely softened and 

 contrasted by many lakes much resorted to by 

 sportsmen and artists, the latter of whom find, in the 

 beautiful scenery around them, some of the finest 

 subjects for the pencil. 



LLANBEDR, five miles from Llanwrst, on the 

 Conway. 



LLAN DEONIOLEN, five miles from Caernarvon, on 

 the Seiont : near Penllyn, in this parish, lived the 

 celebrated Margaret Uch Evan, whom Pennant calls 

 " The Queen of the Lakes/' Her cottage still exists ; 

 and few females in the country have attained so 

 great celebrity as Margaret. Being passionately fond 

 of field sports, she kept a great number of the various 

 kinds of dogs used in this chase : she is said to have 

 destroyed more foxes in one year, than all the 

 confederate hunts did in ten. She rowed well, and 

 could play both on the harp and the fiddle. Margaret 

 was also an excellent joiner; and, at the age of 

 seventy, was the best wrestler in the county. She 

 was also a good angler, blacksmith, shoemaker, and 

 boat-builder. She shod her own horses, made her own 

 shoes, and, while she was under contract to convey 

 the ore from the Llanberis copper mine down the 

 lakes, she built her own boats. This extraordinary 

 female died at a very advanced age. 



LLANWRST, twenty miles from Denbigh, on the 

 Conway, in the beautiful and extensive vale of 

 Llanwrst. 



LLANVEHANGEL y PENNANT,five miles fromTre- 

 madoc, on a fine stream in a valley. 



