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the rocky fcenes of Caernarvonshire.* In- 

 ftead of being as thofe were gentle in afcent, 

 and frequently covered with grafs and turf 

 to their fummits, they now began to wear 

 the favage and majeftic face of Nature 

 they were precipitous, rugged and gloomy. 



A few miles beyond Conwy is the cele- 

 brated mountain called Penmaen Mawr, 

 a huge rock, rifing near 1550 feet in per- 

 pendicular height above the fea. Along a 

 fhelf of this tremendous precipice is formed 

 an excellent road, well guarded towards the 

 fea by a ftrong wall, and fupported in many 



* Before the divifion of Wales into counties this 

 county was called Snowdon Foreft, and in after-times 

 Arvonia, from its fituation oppofite Mon, Bon or 

 Anglefea. It is about 50" miles in length, 25 in 

 breadth, and 130 in circumference; is divided into 

 feven cantreds or hundreds, and fixty-eight parifhes. 

 It contains about 370,000 acres of land, and the po- 

 pulation is calculated at about 16,800. In it are 

 one city and four market towns. 



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