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when he advifed a bottle of rum to be taken 

 along with us, which we finifhed without 

 any one being in the leaft the worfe for it. 

 The track I have laid down for the Tra- 

 veller, at the beginning of this chapter, from 

 Dolbadarn Caftle to the fummit of Snow- 



*, don, is upon the whole, very good, lying 

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in general, over ground covered with turf, 



and not having a fourth part of the rocks 

 that any of the other roads have. Having 

 iince I went this journey been no lefs than 

 feven different ways, to and from the top 

 of Snowdon, I am enabled to fay, that this 

 is by far the moft eafy and agreeable, being 

 neither fo fteep, rocky, or dangerous as any 

 of the others. I do not fuppofe it poffible, 

 that from any other place a perfon can ride 

 to the top, on account of the great number 

 of pointed rocks which intercept the road. 

 Mr. Warner, in his Walk through Wales, 

 feems to have entertained a different opi- 

 nion : for fpeaking of a Farm in Gwynant, 



beyond 



