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done, for a few years longer, there will 

 fcarcely be a tree remaining in all North 

 Wales, 



CHAP. XVI. 



EXCURSION FROM BEDDGELERT TO THE SUM- 

 MIT OF SNOWDON. CLAWDD COCH 



SCENERY CWM LLAN. 



A S I had, upon coming into Wales, 

 made a determination to afcend Snow- 

 don by all the tracks that are ufually pointed 

 out to travellers, I for the laft time, un- 

 dertook the talk, along with a party of 

 four others, from Beddgelert, William 

 Lloyd, the village fchoolmafter, (his fcho- 

 lars being always, during the fummer time, 

 engaged in ruftic employments) performing 

 the office of guide. 



The diftance from Beddgelert to the 



fummit being reckoned not lefs than fix 



B b 4 miles, 



