A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 393 



I went the next morning by Pont Aber- 

 glasllyn, over one of the moft tirefome 

 foot-paths, that even this country can 

 boaft, to the village of Penmorfa. This 

 path lay over the rocks, which run clofe 

 by an arm of the fea, called Traeth Mawr, 

 the great fands. This walk, though ra- 

 ther painful, was however highly intereft- 

 ing ; the lofty mountains ranged in rugged 

 order along the oppofite fide of the fands, 

 feemed an invincible barrier to the inte- 

 rior of the country 



The mountains huge appear 

 Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave 

 Into the clouds, their tops afcend the fky. 



In the year 1625, Sir John Wynne, of 

 Gwydir, conceived the vaft defign of re- 

 covering the two arms of the fea, called 

 Traeth Mawr and Traeth Bach, for culti- 

 vation, by embanking out the water -, and 

 for this purpofe he applied for affiftance to 

 Sir Hugh Middleton, who, in the Ifle of 



Wight, 



