A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 2SS 



ings, but owing to the atmofphere being 

 generally clouded about that time, I never 

 heard but of one or two, befides Mr. 

 Pennant, who had been fo lucky as to fee 

 it rife at all ; and thofe who have feen it, 

 have found, that they had been muled in 

 fuppofmg it to emerge from the water. 

 The mere infpeclion of the map of Eng- 

 land, is quite fufficient to fatisfy any per- 

 fon of the folly of fuch a fuppoiition j for if 

 the fun is feen to rife from the fea, from 

 the top of Snowdon, it mufl either rife 

 from a point more wefterly than the weft 

 coaft of England, or otherwife, fome part 

 of the German ocean muft be vifible from 

 hence, which I believe no one will contend 

 to be poflible. 



Snowdon was formerly a royal foreft, 

 and warrants were iffued for the killing of 

 the deer, but thefe were all extirpated be- 

 fore the year 1626.* 



* Pennant's Tour II. 175. who quotes Gwydir 

 MSS. 



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