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Snowdon * and his companions, on the 

 other, can certainly be vifited, with greater 

 eafe and advantage than from any A place 

 whatever. The Vale of Llanberis, the 

 village, and the romantic pafs where the 

 rocks rife, almoft perpendicularly, from 

 each fide of the road, for betwixt three and 

 four miles beyond it, the cataract, the caf- 

 tle, and the lakes have each a feparate 

 claim upon the Traveller's attention. The 

 only ferious objection that can be made 

 againft it, is, that as part of the prefent 

 road from Caernarvon is fo wretchedly bad, 

 the expence of repairing that, to make it a 

 tolerably good carriage road, would be very 

 great. This is certainly true > but when 

 all the advantages of building a houfe in 

 this very eligible fituation are counterba- 

 lanced with that, I am confident that every 

 objection will be completely done away. 



* The diftance of Dolbadarn from the fummit of 

 Snowdon is not quite four miles and a half ; from 



Beddgelert it is fix miles. 



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