A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



rocky front beyond the upper end, and 

 again far beyond, in fainter colours, the 

 grand pointed fummits of Cader Idris 

 fill up the diftance. 



I crofled the bridge, and, in an excur- 

 fion round the pool, proceeded along it's 

 eaftern edge. From near Llangower, a 

 pleafing vale was feen to open on the op- 

 pofite fide, bounded by mountains, and 

 clofed in at the end by one of the Are- 

 nigs. 



I had pafled the end of the lake about 

 half a mile when I left the road, and 

 Went down a narrow lane which leads 

 to Llanwchllyn, the church above the lake ; 

 I foon afterwards entered the vale of 

 Twrch, and looking around me, Aran 

 Benllyn prefented one of it's naked, 

 craggy, and prominent cliffs, where it's 

 poor vegetation hung in a few tufts from 

 it's broken fides. Here the fcene pre- 

 fented was altogether that of nature in 



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