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Regaining the road I had left, it led me 

 along the fide of Llyntecwyn ucha, the 

 upper pool of Tecwyn, where I found fome 

 pleafant, though lefs mountainous fcenery 

 than what I had juft patted. This pool is 

 larger than many of thofe in Wales, and 

 it's waters are beautifully clear. On one 

 fide of it is a range of low rocks, com- 

 pofed of a fhivery kind of flate, which has 

 mouldered in many places to the bottom 

 in fmall marp pieces, almofl refembling 

 needles. 



Afterwards paffing the village of Llan- 

 tecwyn, and Llyntecwyn ifa, the lower 

 Tec<wyn pool 9 I came to a moft lovely little 

 meadowy vale, about three miles diftant 

 from Harlech, called (as I understood, the 

 Guide) Dol Orcal. After the late un- 

 couth fcenery, I here enjoyed to the ut- 

 moft, the pleaiing effect of the green 

 woods and meads in the vale, and the 

 purple heath which concealed and foftened 

 D d 4 the 



