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touched no plant of it ; but the two fronds herein were gathered 

 by Williams and handed to me. Three growing plants wei'e seen 

 by me upon the rock (a small isolated one) near the Dog Lake, 

 The very same may be said of Lonchitis, which grew in a fissure 

 of the north-east face of the rock below Twll-du. But I must 

 fill in more details in another place. I found Williams very 

 pleased to spend the day with me in wandering over the awful 

 and grand mountain and rock scenery we traversed, where I had 

 never been before, and where, I believe, it might have been 

 scarcely safe for me to have gone entirely alone. We were out 

 from 9 A.M. till after 9 p.m., returning down the steep grassy 

 slope by moonlight. Our route was thus : up the Pass, ascend 

 gradually beneath the overhanging or perpendicular faces of the 

 Glyder side, till we reach a depression in the ridge, a short dis- 

 tance eastward of the spot where it is evident those two immense 

 boulders, locally known as the " Cromlechs,^' have at some former 

 period been detached and fallen close to the present roadside. 

 Well, by a little pretty sharp climbing and securing our footing 

 (in some places but a very few inches), and holding on by the 

 projections, etc., we got through, over, and up on to the part 

 called Craig-du, which we may consider the first landing to Glyder 

 Fawr. Here we find Juniperus nanXs the prevailing feature, and ^- / 

 the two Vaccinia, the four Lycopodia, with magnificent plants of 

 Allosorus crispus ; all these in abundance. 



After having passed this first or lower ridge, vrhich forms the 

 north horizon from the level of the Pass, Williams brought us a 

 little way back to a high rocky summit, from which a most deli- 

 cious view is obtained both ways : first, westward over the village, 

 the vale, the lakes, Carnarvon, Anglesea, the sea, and, at parti- 

 cular states of the atmosphere (but not on Saturday, the 25th), 

 high land in Wicklow is seen ; second, turn, and eastward from 

 the same spot you see up past Gorphwysfa or the Pen-y-Pass the 

 northern and eastern end of the Nant Gwynant, the road to Bedd- 

 gelert, the way towards Capel Curig, the Moel Shiabod, the way 

 to Dolwyddelan, and the Moels which overhang the vale of Ffes- 

 tiniog, and a little to the left of that, the high moors and table- 

 land above Penmachno and surrounding the Llyn Conway. Pro- 

 ceeding nearly due north, we find a long but not very steep ascent 

 to the very highest point of the Glyder Fawr, not difficidt of 

 access, except as regards distance. We have now been for some 



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