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for him, on account of the huge mafles of 

 rock, which are in different places fcattered 

 up and down, if he had defired ever fo 

 to crofs from Cwm Llan immediately over 

 Snowdon to Dolbadarn. 



I mould think Mr. Afhton Smith, who 

 is, I underftand, the owner of much land 

 about Llanberis, might find it a profitable, 

 certainly an ufeful fpeculation, to build a 

 fmall comfortable Inn fomewhere near 

 Dolbadarn caftle. Perhaps, to repair the 

 caftle itfelf for this purpofe, and place fome 

 out-houfes near it, would be found the leaft 

 expenfive mode of doing it. The advan- 

 tages would be very great. Being fituated 

 in the heart of the mountains, the botani- 

 cal traveller, the mineralogift, and the ar- 

 tift, would be all induced to refort to it as 

 a fituation exactly fuited to each of their 

 occupations. Nor would the traveller on 

 pleafure, find lefs inducements than they. 

 From hence Glyder, and the mountains 

 around it, on one fide of the vale, and 

 VOL. i, R Snow- 



