PRINCIPAL FISHING STATIONS. 193 



DOLWYDDELAN, eight miles from Llanwrst, on 

 the Ledan. 



LLANNOR, two miles from Pwllheli, beautifully 

 situated at the junction of two streams. 



PONT ABERGLASLYN SALMON LEAP. Beddgelert is 

 the place to which strangers usually resort who wish 

 to see Pont Aberglaslyn, or to angle in the river, 

 which here abounds with salmon and trout. The 

 name of this place signifies, in Welsh, the " Bridge 

 of the Blue Pool ;" but it is more usually called the 

 Devil's Bridge. 



About a mile beyond Beddgelert, the road winds 

 along a narrow stony vale, where the huge cliffs 

 on each side approach so nearly as to leave only 

 just sufficient width for the road, and the im- 

 petuous torrent that rolls along the side of it. 



A few yards above the bridge, the river pre- 

 cipitates itself in a fall of eight or ten feet, over a 

 range of rocks occupying nearly the whole of its 

 bed. This cataract is noted as a salmon leap, 

 being only a few miles from the sea. In the course 

 of an hour twenty or thirty fish may be seen at- 

 tempting to spring over the barrier ; but a piece 

 of netting, which the renters of the fishery place 

 there for the purpose of preventing them, has so 

 increased its height that they do not often suc- 

 ceed. Fatigued with their vain efforts to gain the 

 upper stream, the fish retire to the still water 

 below, where they are either taken in nets or 

 killed by harpoons, as many as five or six fine 

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