23* A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES: 



This mountain, held as facred by the 

 antient Britons, was their Parnajfus. They 

 have a proverb extant at this day, that 

 ** whoever Jleeps on Snowdon, will awake 

 " either a poet or a madman ;' ' probably 

 arifing from their conceiving, that upon a 

 perfon's awaking in this elevated region, the 

 ftupendous objects around, which fb fud- 

 denly prefent themfelves to him, muft 

 either infpire him with the furor poeticus or 

 Aiioen> as the Welm term it, or otherwife 

 muft deprive him of his fenfes. 



Many tourifts have put themfelves to 

 great trouble, in reprefenting the almofl 

 Innumerable difficulties, which they pre- 

 tend to have encountered in their journeys 

 up this mountain. To provide againft 

 thefe pretended difficulties, one recom- 

 mends a flrong flick with a fpike in the 

 end, as a thing abfolutely neceffary. Ano- 

 ther advifes, that the foles of the fhoes 

 ihould be fet round with large nails - } and 



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