100 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



the waterfall of the great chafm, the height 

 of which is upwards of lixty feet. It is 

 formed by a mountain ftream, which rufhes 

 through a narrow opening in the rock, and 

 is precipitated with a thundering noife.into 

 the deep black pool below. 



At fome diftance beyond the caftle, and 

 near the edge of the upper pool, is a copper 

 mine belonging to a company of proprie- 

 tors, who refide at Macclesfield. Thefe 

 works are very inconfiderable, not having 

 more than forty or fifty hands employed in 

 them. 



The village of Llanberis is romantic in 

 the extreme ; it is fituated in a narrow 

 gralTy dell, furrounded by immenfe rocks, 

 whofe fummits, cloud-capped, are but fel- 

 dom vifible to the inhabitants from below. 

 Except two tolerable houfes in the vale, 

 one belonging to Mr. Jones, the agent to 

 the copper mine, and the other, which is on 

 the fide of the lake, oppofite to Dolbadarn 



caflle, 



