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clouds by degrees cleared away, and left us 

 at full liberty to admire the numerous 

 beauties in this vaft expanfive fcene. The 

 fteep rock of Clogwyn y Garnedd, whofe 

 dreadful precipices are, fomeofthem, above 

 two hundred yards in perpendicular height, 

 and the whole rock, a feries of precipices, 

 was an object which firft flruck my com- 

 panions with terror, and one of them burft 

 out in exclamation, 



< How fearful 



And dizzy 'tis to caft one's eyes fo low! 



The crows and choughs that wing the midway air 



Shew fcarce fo grofs as beetles. 



We now flood on a point which com- 

 manded the whole dome of the fky. The 

 profpects below, each of which we had 

 before confidered feparately as a great fcene, 

 were now only miniature parts of the im- 

 menfe landfcape. We had around us fuch 

 a numerous variety of mountains, valleys, 



lakes, 



