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country. From the different accounts I 

 had received of this mountain, I did not 

 think my trouble in afcending it was likely 

 to be repaid by any thing I mould meet 

 with in the journey - t I therefore kept along 

 the road, and only pafled it at a diftance. 

 The mountains around being all low, make 

 it appear much higher than it really is, and 

 from it's being the place from whence the 

 three noted rivers, Severn, Wye, and 

 Rhydol, all rife, may have been the caufe 

 of it's being fo much known. In perpen- 

 dicular height, it is far exceeded both by 

 Snowdon and Cader Idris. In the flat 

 country, betwixt Plynlimmon and the 

 road, I obferved a fmall unadorned pool, 

 called Glas Llyn, the blue lake. 



When I had got about half way to 

 Llanydloes, I turned on the right, and 

 went about a mile and a half from the 

 road to fee a noted cataradt, called Frwd 

 y Pennant, the torrent at the head of the 



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