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pudding. That is what makes this low range 

 so monotonous and uniform in surface ; it 

 displays no jagged and weathered craggy 

 rocks, no deep glens cut by ice or rivers, but 

 it still shows for the most part only the long 

 rounded sloping contour of the original 

 moraine, slightly cut through in places by 

 uninteresting streams. In the railway cut- 

 tings below one can admirably see the com- 

 position of the moraine, with its ground-tone 

 of mud and its interspersed boulders ; while 

 here by the roadside one finds just the self- 

 same boulders, picked off the ground for the 

 sake of a clearance, and piled up loosely to 

 make a rude stone wall. In the Snowdon 

 district, especially along the pretty drive 

 through Nant Gwynant from Beddgelert to 

 Capel Curig, numbers of sections have been 

 made in the moraines for road metal, the 

 hard boulders being dug out and broken up 

 for this utilitarian purpose ; and on the slopes 

 above, near the mountain tarn of Llyn 

 Llydaw, one may still observe the huge 



