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miniihed all the mountain fireams to mere 

 rills. The ftation on the fide of the ftream, 

 oppofite to that on which we ftood, ap- 

 peared as if it would take in more of the 

 fall, but though I made an attempt to crofs 

 it, I found that ftill the rapidity of the 

 current rendered that impoffible. When 

 the river, after a heavy fall of rain, afTumes 

 a more impetuous form, the cataract muft 

 certainly be very grand, as the bed of the 

 ftream is at lead twenty yards over, and 

 the innumerable mafies of rock which have, 

 at different times, been carried along with 

 it, and lodged here, oppofing it's fury, 

 muft throw it foaming into all directions. 



A little below the bridge Pont-y-Pair, 

 the Llugwy unites with the Conwy. The 

 latter river rifes from Llyn Conwy, a large 

 pool about three miles beyond the village 

 of Penmachno, and though both of them 

 are, before their junction, moft furious 

 and broken torrents, they here aflume a 



placid 



