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along the meadows, which here extend up 

 the mountain's fides for about half a mile. 

 Leaving thefe, I after fome time, came to 

 Bwlch Cwm Brwynog, the hollow of the 

 vale of Brwynog, a kind of gap betwixt 

 two mountains which overlook that vale. 

 This hollow is reckoned about half way 

 from Bettws to the top, and perfons who 

 come on horfeback ufually ride thus far, 

 leaving their horfes here to the care of 

 their fervants till they return. I paffed by 

 Llyn fynnon y Gwas, the Jervanfs' pool, fo 

 called, it is faid, from the fervant of a 

 farmer in the neighbourhood having fome 

 years ago been drowned there as he was warn- 

 ing fome fheep. The road then lay along a 

 pretty fleep ridge, one of thofe that Mr. 

 Pennant has not improperly denominated 

 the buttrefles of Snowdon, for at a diftance 

 they certainly have the appearance of fup- 

 porting that vafl mountain. 



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