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and rapid as your Scotch burns, winding in 

 very agreeable forms, with a very pretty 

 cafcade. On the edge of this valley we 

 travelled on foot, for the fleepnefs of the road 

 would not allow us to ride without fome 

 danger j and in about half an hour we came 

 to a more open country, though ftill inclofed 

 with hills, in which we faw the town of Bala, 

 with it's beautiful lake. The town is fmall 

 and ill-built - 3 but the lake is a fine objeft ; 

 it is about three miles in length, and one in 

 breadth; the water of it is clear, and of a 

 bright filver colour. The river Dee runs 

 through very rich meadows ; at the other end 

 are towering high mountains ; on the fides 

 are gra0y hills, but not fo well wooded as I 

 could wifh them to be : there is alfo a bridge 

 pf ftone built over the river, and a gentleman's 

 houfe, which embellifhes the profpet. But 

 what Bala is the rnoft famous for, is the beauty 

 of it's women, and indeed I there faw fome 

 of the prettieft girls I evey beheld. The 

 Jake produces very fine trout, and a fifh called 

 tybiting* peculiar to itfelf, and of fo delicate 

 a tafte, that 1 believe you would prefer the 

 flavour of it to the lips of the fair maids at Bala. 

 After we left the banks of the lake, where 

 we had an agreeable day, we got again into 



* A fpecics of Alpine fifty-, the Saltiio Lavaratus of Lin- 

 su*, caHeci by the Wallh. Gwyniad, 



the 



