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when it refumed it's former afpect. This 

 little village, which feemed toconlift of lit- 

 tle more than the public houfe and church, 

 did not come into fight till we had got 

 within about half a mile of the place. 



The vale of Capel Curig, which is 

 bounded by the Britiih Alps, Snowdon 

 and his furrounding mountains, affords one 

 of the moft picturefque landfcapes in the 

 whole country. 



Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain ; 

 Here earth and water feem to ftrive again: 

 Not chaos like, together crufh'd and bruis'd, 

 But as the world, harmonioufly confus'd. 



In this vale there is that variety, both of 

 wood and water, which moft of the other 



and is the only place in which I find him men- 

 tioned : 



" A certain Friar to increafe his (lore, 

 " Beneath his cloak, grey Curig 's image bore; 

 " And to protedt good folks from nightly harm, 

 <c Another fells St. Seiriol as a charm." 



A Letter of Lewis Morris, in Camb. Reg. II. 492, 



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