232 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



The fummit of Snowdon is fo frequently 

 enveloped in clouds and mift, that except 

 when the weather is perfectly fine and 

 fettled, the traveller through this country 

 will find it rather rare to get a day fuffi- 

 ciently clear to permit him to afcend the 

 hill. When the wind blows from the 

 weft, it is almoft always completely covered. 

 And at other times, even when the day 

 feems very favourable, it will, from it's 

 great height and it's attraction of the clouds, 

 fometimes become enveloped on a fudden, 

 and remain in that ftate for feveral hours : 

 For my own part, I think it much more 

 interefting when the clouds juft cover the 

 fummit, for at thefe times, from their fud- 

 denly breaking and clofing, the moft fub^ 

 lime and pleafing ideas are excited. 



It has been faid, and very generally 

 believed, that from the top of this moun- 

 tain the fun is feen to rife from the fea. 

 Many travellers have gone up in the even- 

 ings, 



