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increafed or diminimed in quantity, either 

 in winter or fummer. From it's very ele- 

 vated iituation, it is the coldeft I ever recoi- 

 led to have tailed. 



Mofl^of the old writers, who have had 

 occafion to mention this mountain, aiTert 

 that it is covered with fnow all the year 

 round ; but this is by no means true, for 

 this, as well as all the other mountains of 

 Wales, ^ ate generally entirely deftitute of 

 fnow from the beginning of June till about 

 the latter end of October, at which time it 

 commonly begins to fall. 



Giraldus Cambrenfis,* moil incredibly 

 relates, that an eagle ufed to frequent this 

 mountain, at certain periods, in expectation 

 of war, that he might glut his appetite on 

 bodies of the flain, and that in fharpening 

 his beak he made a large hole in one parti- 

 cular flone on which he always perched, 



* Itin. Camb. Syl. Gir. Camb. Lib. II. c. 9. 



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