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" the moft effeminate of her admirers, as 

 ** if predetermined to maintain the fupe- 

 *' riority which nature has beftowed on 

 her."* 



Accompanied by the parifli clerk as a 

 guide, I afcended the lofty and almoft per- 

 pendicular mountain on the north-eaft fide 

 of the village, called Glyder vawr, the 

 great Glyder. The afcent I found much 

 more fteep and tirefome than I afterwards 

 found that to the fummit of Snowdon. 

 The path all the way was rocky, and in 

 many places very wet and flippery: but 

 little inconveniences of this kind the tra- 

 veller, amongft the mountains, from their 

 frequent occurrence, will foon learn to 

 bear with. On the left of the afcent were 

 pointed out to me, at fome diftance, two 



* This account of Margaret uch Evan is ex- 

 trailed from Mr. Pennant's Tour, II. 166, 167. 



high 



