336 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Drayton, * in his unpolimed lines, feems to 

 have followed him in opinion : 



Of all the Cambrian fliires their heads that beare 



fo hie, 

 And farths't furvay their foyles with an ambitious 



eye, 

 Mervinia for her hills, as for their matchlefTe 



crowds, 

 The near'ft that are faid to kiflfe the wand'ring 



clouds, 

 Efpeciall audience craves 



A few yards above the bridge, is a fmall 

 cataract, noted as being a falmon leap. 

 It's height from the bed of the river is 

 about thirteen feet, but when there is a 

 tolerable quantity of water, it is not from 

 the furface more than eight or nine. The 

 falmon come up the rivers in order to 

 depofit their fpawn on the fandy mallows, 

 and when flopped in their progrefs, by rocks 

 or dams, acrofs the water, they have the 



* Polyolbion. 



power 



