456 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



ficent cataract of the three. A narrow 

 ftream rufhes down a vaft rock at leaft a 

 hundred and fifty feet high, whole hori- 

 zontal flrata here run in irregular ileps 

 through it's whole breadth, and form a 

 mural front. Thefe indeed are fo regular, 

 as in a great meafure to fpoil it's pidturefque 

 beauty, unlefs hidden by a volume of wa- 

 ter much greater than there was at the 

 time I faw it. Immenfe fragments of 

 broken rock fcattered around in every dif- 

 ferent direction at the foot of the fall, com- 

 municate a pleafing effect. And the agree- 

 able mixture of tints of the dark oak and 

 birch, with the yellower and fading elm, 

 formed on the whole a fcene highly gra- 

 tifying. 



The guide who accompanied me, was 

 an Englimman, who had refided only a 

 few years in Wales. He feemed ignorant 

 of the language, which prevented him 

 from giving me fo much information as I 



wimed. 



