480 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WA-LES. 



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fparingly fcattered in the adjacent bottoms. 

 About five miles from Machynlleth, I 

 came to a long and lofty hill, which con- 

 tinues on an afcent for near three miles, 

 from whofe top I had an ample view of 

 the country around me j but it's beauties 

 were very few, it feemed nothing more 

 than one difmal wafle of hill and vale. 

 From hence I went over the turfy moun- 

 tains, without a village, and almoft with- 

 out a cottage to be feen the whole way. 



Soon after I had mounted the height, 

 Plynlimmon became vifible at the diftance 

 of four or five miles on the rieht. It's 



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name Plynlimmon feems to have been 

 derived from Pen lummon, the fummit of 

 the beacon, from it's being fo much higher 

 than all the hills around it ; and proba- 

 bly, on that account, it may have been 

 of ufe to the neighbouring peafantry as a 

 known mark by which they could (even in 

 fnow) fleer their courfe over this uncouth 



country. 



