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beyond Beddgelert, he fays, that the father 

 of the prefent tenant, who attended con- 

 flantly the market at Caernarvon, in order 

 to avoid a route, rather circuitous by the 

 turnpike road, conftantly croffed the moun- 

 tain by the track, which he had purfued. 

 Thus the poor fellow, in order to avoid a 

 circuitous route, ufed to crofs over the 

 higheft peak of the mountain, and go by 

 Polbadarn Caftle (the way he went) to 

 Caernarvon; by this means going near 

 twenty miles inftead of fourteen, by the re- 

 gular road; certainly not an Englifh me- 

 thod of avoiding a circuitous route. The fa& 

 was, that he went up a hollow, near which 

 his houfe flood, called Cwm Llan, croffed 

 over the foot of Snowdon, and came inte 

 the turnpike road, leading from Caernarvon 

 to Beddgelert, not far from Llyn G welly n, 

 that he might fave a more circuitous track 

 down Gwynant and round by Beddgelert. 

 It would have been utterly impracticable 



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