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high mountains, called Llyder Vawr and 

 Llyder Vack, the greater and leffer Llyder. 

 Glyder Vawr is the loftieft of all the. 

 Caernarvonfhire mountains, except Snow~ 

 don, and in a flat, almoft furrounded by 

 rocks, about three-fourths of the diftance 

 to the fummit, we came to a fmall pool, 



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called Llyn y Cwn, the pool of the dogs. 

 This alpine lake is mentioned in the Iti- 

 nerary of Giraldus Cambreniis,* as contain- 

 ing a fingular kind of trout, perch, and 

 Eels, which were all monocular, each 

 wanting a left eye. This account has in 

 general, been looked upon as fabulous; 

 and Speed ^ thus deridingly fpeaks of it : 

 " Thefe matters are out of my creed; 

 " yet I think the reader had better be- 

 " lieve them, than go to fee whether it 

 " be fo or not." But the Honourable 



* Gir. Camb. Itin. Cambria, Lib. II. cap. 9. 

 p. 872. 



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