38* A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



this bridge. I had fomewhere read of an 

 arch thrown acrofs a narrow flream, each 

 end fupported by a perpendicular rock, one 

 in Caernarvonshire and the other in Merio- 

 nethfhire ;* and perhaps confounding it in 

 fome meafure with what I had heard of the 

 Devil's bridge, near Hafod, in Cardigan- 

 fhire, I had formed a fine high flown idea 

 that I fhould fee an arch thrown acrofs a 

 deep narrow valley, and hanging, as it 

 were, in mid air : but how difappointed, to 

 find it a bridge but little out of the ufual 

 form ! The grand fcenery around, made 

 it at a diftance appear quite an infignificant 

 object ; but in this I had fcope enough for 

 admiration. The road winds along a nar- 

 row flony vale, where the dark perpendi- 



* Merionethfhire is in length, from eaft to weft, 

 45 miles, and in breadth, from north to fouth, 34. 

 Its circumference is about 150 miles. It has about 

 20,000 inhabitants, and contains 34 parimes, and 

 two market towns. 



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