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its summit. The Pass of Llanberris is superb. On the right 

 rises Glyder, tumultuously, ruggedly, and abruptly, more than 

 a thousand feet. On the left, the Snowdon mountains, with all 

 their peaks, are piled together in indescribable grandeur and 

 confusion. Some of their naked and black peaks, inaccessible 

 to man, ate the abode of the buzzard, the sea-mew, and raven, 

 which may ever be seen wheeling in circles over and around 

 them ; and the shrill cry of the hawks, the harsh screams of 

 the mew, or the hoarse croak of the ill-boding raven, are 

 almost the only sounds which these wilds ever know, except, 

 occasionally, the cheerful cry of the Welsh girl to her cows as 

 she brings them home to milk, or the echo of their lowing. The 

 mountain-streams in this region were particularly beautiful. 

 You may, from below, trace their winding leaping course for 

 hundreds of feet down the side of a precipice, white as driven 

 snow, and looking in the distance no wider than a piece of 

 tape. Having nearly reached the village of Llanberris, we turned 

 to the right and ascended Glyder, the mountain under which 

 we had passed. At first, the ascent was but moderately steep, 

 and, being covered with a fine soft turf, afforded us a good 

 and secure footing. Here we took the most splendid varieties 

 of Carahiis arvensis, brassy, coppery, blue, purple, green, 

 and jet black ; we found also several Silphce, besides Steropi, 

 Omasei, and other Carabidce, running in the sunshine. After 

 an ascent of several hundred feet, the character of the moun- 

 tain completely varies : it presents nothing but a surface of 

 loose sharp stones, and becomes so nearly perpendicular that 

 the only mode of progression is on all fours, and severe work 

 we found it. A pleasant sight v/e should have afforded to some 

 of our brother entomologists of Cockney-land, whose researches 

 are confined to Copenhagen brick-fields, or the wilds of 

 Battersea cabbage-gardens. Our view from the summit, over 

 Anglesea, and the sea beyond, was very fine ; but the peep over 

 the precipice, into the Pass of Llanberris, was really awful : 

 human beings in the road could no longer be recognised as 

 such without a glass, but appeared like black specks. Our 

 principal motive in seeking this spot had been to find Chryso- 

 mela cereaUs, which our botanical friend informed us had 

 been taken under stones, and on the Jumperus nanus, which 

 grows here in profusion ; we were, however, unsuccessful : 

 but in directing our course from hence towards Capel Curig, 



