21* A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



In a fecond vifit that I made to Llan- 

 beris, I went through the curious and ro- 

 mantic pafs, leading from thence by the 

 village of Capel Curig to Llanrwft. This 

 pafs is betwixt three and four miles in 

 length, and in fome places not more than 

 fifty or fixty yards wide. The rocks on 

 each fide are of a tremendous height, in 

 fome places nearly perpendicular, and in 

 others overhanging their bafes many yards. 

 Sometimes the road winds quite under the 

 precipices, and the impending rocks, def- 

 titute of vegetation, render the fcene in 

 the higheft degree romantic. In few places 

 has Nature been more grand in her works 

 than in this vale, which towers infinitely 

 above all the pigmy works of art. About 

 two miles from Llanberis there is a huge 

 fragment of rock, once probably loofened 

 from the majeftic heights above, under 

 which is a confiderable cavity where a 

 poor woman for many years refided during 



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