W6 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



encountered but what the fcenery will 

 ^mply make up far. A perfon may ride all 

 the way on horfeback, but for the laft three 

 pr four mile's the road is fo very bad that it 

 would be juft as eafy to walk, 



There are in the vale of Llanberis, 

 which is ftraight and nearly of an equal 

 breadth throughout, two fmall lakes or 

 rather pools; for their fize will fcarcely 

 admit of the former appellation. The 

 upper pool is about a mile in length* an4 

 fomething leis than half a mile over, arid 

 the other, though rather longer, is fo very 

 narrow that it has much more the appear^ 

 ance of a wide river than a lake. Thefe are 

 feparated by a fmall neck of land, but have 

 a communication by a flream which runs 

 Betwixt them. 



In thefe pools the fim called char ufed 

 formerly to be taken, but owing to the 

 copper-works carried on here, thefe have all 

 been long fmce deftroyed* 



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