A TOUR ROUND NORTH ;WALES; 



CHAP. XII. 



FROM AMLWCH BY BEAUMARIS TO CAERNAR- 

 VON. COPPER MINES LLANELIAN SUPER- 

 STITIOUS CUSTOM BEAUMARIS CASTLE BAY 

 LA VAN SANDS LLANVAES BATTLE PEN- 

 MON WELL AND CROSS- PRIESTHOLME PUF- 

 FINS YNYS LIGOD. 



HPHE diftance from Amlwch to the An- 

 glefea coppermines, is very little more 

 than a mile, and I prevailed upon one of 

 the miners, an intelligent man, who could 

 fpeak Engliih, to walk with me there. 

 Having afcended to the fummit of the 

 mountain, I found myfelf flanding on the 

 verge of a vaft tremendous chafm, which 

 the miners call an open caft. This I en- 

 tered, and when, at the bottom, the mag- 

 ged arches and overhanging rocks, which 

 Teemed to threaten annihilation to any one 

 who was daring enough to approach them, 



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