A Mo in t tain Tulip. 173 



VI. 

 A MOUNTAIN TULIP. 



The path up from the Llyn to the crest of Mynydd 

 IVIawr leads for some distance along the mossy, 

 boulder-strewn course of a mountain torrent, which 

 takes its rise in a fairy spring close below the actual 

 summit of the craggy peak. It is a stiff pull for fair- 

 weather pedestrians, this almost untrodden tourist 

 trackway, with here and there a hand-and-knee 

 clamber over great glacier-marked bosses of solid 

 granite ; but the exquisite glimpses we get at every 

 fresh spur over the bare shoulders of Moel Siabod 

 and into the cleft valley of the upper Conway more 

 than compensate for the rough stony walking and the 

 obvious damage to one's nether integuments. Very 

 few casual beaten-road visitors ever find out these 

 lonely footpaths up the less-frequented mountains ; 

 the mass takes its circular tour round the regulation 

 road by Llanberis, Beddgelcrt, and Capel Curig, 

 leaving Mynydd Mawr and its neighbouring Carncdds 



