A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 23T 



mentioned his having nearly fallen from 

 one of the precipices himfelf, in confe- 

 quence of drinking a glafs of brandy; and 

 that, during the fummer preceding that in 

 which he was in Wales, one of a party of 

 gentlemen, from London, had been fo af* 

 fected, by the fame quantity taken on the 

 fummit of Snowdon, that he actually got 

 a fevere tumble, which though not fatal, 

 produced fome painful bruifes. 



Left any of the readers of tha. prefent 

 work, from having read this account, may 

 be induced from the dread of accidents, 

 fimilar to thefe, to negledt taking along 

 with them that kind of refreshment, 

 which, in my opinion, is necefTary towards 

 rendering themfelves comfortable in thefe 

 cold regions, it is incumbent on me, to 

 inform them, that the writer of the account 

 has very much miftaken the fad:. By the 

 advice of the clergyman, who attended me 

 iu this and my other mountain excurfions, 



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