A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 3T7 



which from below appeared of an im- 

 menfe height, began now to feem beneath 

 us ; the lakes and vallies became more ex- 

 pofed, and the little rills and mountain 

 flreams by degrees became all vifible to us, 

 like lilver lines interfering the hollows 

 around. 



We now approached a moft tremendous 

 ridge, over which we had to pafs, called 

 Clawdd Coch, or the red ridge. This nar- 

 row pafs, not more than ten or twelve feet 

 acrofs, and two or three hundred yards in 

 length, was fo fteep that the eye reached on 

 each fide down the whole extent of the 

 mountain. And I am firmly perfuaded that, 

 in fome parts of it, if a perfon held a large 

 ftone in each hand, and let them both fall 

 at once, each would roll above a quarter 

 of a mile, and thus, when they flopped, 

 be more than half a mile afunder. The 

 lady who was with us, to my great fur- 

 prize, 



