30 MEMOIR OF PENNANT. 



This volume leaves great part of Wales unexplored, 

 particularly the higher and wilder districts, and he 

 desired to render it more complete by visiting those 

 parts. An excursion is undertaken to Snowdon and 

 the alpine range of the country, the results of which 

 were published, under the title of " A Journey to 

 Snowdon ;" and a third journey is performed, which, 

 with the Snowdonia, forms the second volume of the 

 Tour in Wales, and appeared about 1781. This 

 is illustrated with many plates, and is written, like 

 the first, with more attention to the history and an- 

 tiquities than to the works of nature. There are, 

 however, occasionally short notices regarding both 

 the botany and zoology. In the former he was as- 

 sisted by Lightfoot, to whose inspection, most proba- 

 bly, his collections on returning would be submitted. 

 In the zoology there is a notice regarding the beaver, 

 which shews that that animal was once known to the 

 Welsh. He mentions that on " the Conway there 

 is a deep, wide, and still water, called Llyn yr 

 Afangc, or the Beaver's Pool ; our ancestors also 

 called them, with great propriety, Llost Lyday, or 

 broad- tailed animal. Their skin was of such esteem, 

 as to be valued at an hundred and twenty pence," 

 a large sum in those days, and still greater when 

 compared with the price of the skin of other animals ; 

 an ermine, otter, wolf, or fox, were only valued at 

 twelve pence. 



In another part of the work he mentions a singular 

 breeding-place for the heron, both from the situation 



