A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 4*5 



itfelf down a rock betwixt fifty and fixty 

 feet in height, whofe ftrata laying in pa- 

 rallel lines feveral degrees inclined from the 

 horizon, give the fcene a fingular and 

 crooked appearance. The ftream is thrice 

 broken in it's fall, and the bafon into which 

 is precipitated, is very large. In the bafon 

 are fome fine trout, which an heron feemed 

 to be anxioufly watching till I arouzed 

 him from his attention. The rocks and 

 trees form an amphitheatre around, and 

 the foreground was finely broken by the 

 large pieces of rock, once, no doubt, 

 loofened from above. The upper part of 

 the fall was hidden by intervening rocks, 

 but upon croffing the flream, it came into 

 view. The fcene was now complete and 

 certainly picturefque. 



Piftyll* y Cain, the fpout of the Cain, I 

 found by far the higheft and moil magni- 



* The wood Pijlyll in the Britifh language, figni- 

 fies a narrow ftream of water, foraethins; like that 



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ifluing through a fpout. 



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