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we pafled over the fands, we were furprized 

 to fee that all the cattle preferred that bar- 

 ren place to the meadows. The guide faid, 

 it was to avoid a fly, which in the heat of 

 the day came out of the woods, and infefted 

 them in the valleys. The view of the faid 

 fands are terrible, as they are hemmed in on 

 each fide with very high hills, but broken into 

 a thoufand irregular fhapes. At one end is 

 the ocean, at the other the formidable moun- 

 tains of Snowdon, black and naked rocks, 

 which feemed to be piled one above the other. 

 The fummits of fome of them are covered 

 with clouds, and cannot be afcended. They 

 do altogether ftrongly excite the idea of Bur- 

 net, of their being the fragment of a demo- 

 limed world. The rain which was falling 

 when I began to write this letter did not laft 

 long ; it cleared up after dinner, and gave us 

 a fine evening, which employed us in riding 

 along the fea coaft, which is here very cold. 



The grandeur of the ocean, correfponding 

 with that of the mountain, formed a majeflic 

 and folemn fcene ; ideas of immenfity fwelled 

 and exalted our minds at the fight ; all lefler 

 objects appeared mean and trifling, fo that we 

 could hardly do juftice to the ruins of an old 

 caftle*, fituated upon the top of a conical 

 hill, the foot of which is warned by the fea, 

 * Criccieth. 



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