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taining a floating ifland.* The ifland, eight 

 or nine yards in length, and having a fmall 

 willow tree growing upon it, is yet in ex- 

 iftence. It fometimes remains near the 

 fide of the pool, for a confiderable while 

 together, and is fo firm as to bear cattle 

 upon it, for when it has been diflodged by 

 the wind, a fheep or two have been fre- 

 quently furprized upon, and wafted with 

 it to the other parts. Nennius -j- reckons 

 this ifland, amongft the mirabilia of Great 

 Britain. 



I pafled Llyn y Cader, another pool 

 not far from the road, and fhortly after- 

 wards, croffing a bridge, defcended through 

 Nant Colwyn to Beddgelert, a village com- 

 pletely embofomed in mountains, whofe 



* Itin. Cambriae Syl. Gir. Cambrenfe Lib. II. 

 cap. 90. Lcland's Itin. V. p. 42. Camden's Bri r 

 tannia. 



t Ncnnius's Hid. Brit. 



rude 



