348 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



of a fet of drunken fellows, we were taker* 

 from the inn into In adjoining building, 

 and (hewn up flairs into a bed -room, the 

 moft dirty and difagreeable I ever was in. 

 After we had fatiated our thirft, as well as 

 we could, with what they called brandy and 

 water, the beft beverage they could pro- 

 duce us, but which, by the bye, I fhould 

 as foon have taken for Burgundy as brandy, 

 we went by a foot-path, which leads from 

 oppofite the end of the houfe, to fee the 

 falls of the Cynfael. Thefe are, the one 

 about three hundred yards above, and the 

 other three hundred yards below, a ruftic 

 ftone bridge over the river, to which the 

 path led us. 



The upper fall confifts of three fteep 

 rocks, over which the water foams into 

 a deep black bafon, overmadowed by the 

 adjoining rocks. The other, which I 

 think is nearly as beautiful, is formed by a 

 broad fheet of water, precipitated down a 



flightly 



