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The light clouds fwept brifkly over the 

 mountains, fometimes entirely obfcuring 

 them, and at others mewing their ferrated 

 tops vifible through the thinnefs of the 

 mift. Amongft the higher rocks I ob- 

 ferved the Black Ouzel, Turdus torquatus, 

 of Linnasus : it is not an unufual inhabitant 

 of thefe alpine regions. 



I defcended from Snowdon this time 

 along what may with great propriety be 

 denominated a mountain flaircafe, which 

 lies down the rocks immediately over the 

 village of Llanberis. This road was al- 

 together fo very fteep and tirefome, that I 

 mould at any time prefer going a few miles 

 round to venturing down it again. 



The day after I made this journey, I 

 afcerided Snowdon once again from Bettws, 

 a fmall place about five miles from Caer- 

 narvon, in the road leading from thence to 

 Beddgelert. After I had pafTed the village 

 a little way, I turned to the left, and went 

 II 4 along 



