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and was forced to go round by Bangor, another episcopal 

 see, but a small village, and the cathedral a mean one. I 

 passed the ferry at Porthaithwyth, into the Isle of An- 

 glesey, and lodged at Beaumaris, a pretty little town, 

 having a handsome strong castle. The Welch people 

 generally are extremely civil and well bred, very honest 

 and courteous to strangers. 



August the 31st, I removed to Carnarvon, passing over 

 the ferry just named. Carnarvon is a small town, walled 

 about with a tall but slight wall. The castle is large, 

 hath formerly been considerable for its strength and 

 beauty, but now is quite gone to decay ; Edward II was 

 born in it. 



September the 1st, I left Carnarvon, intending for 

 Snowden, having, for that purpose, hired a guide to 

 conduct me to the top of the hill. But it rained so hard, 

 and the weather proved so bad, that I was forced, within 

 a mile of the town, to take shelter in a small cottage. 

 After that I proceeded to the foot of the hill, where my 

 guide desponding, and being somewhat late, I was forced 

 to dismiss him. This night I lodged at Bethkellert. 



September the 2d. At Bethkellert I hired another 

 guide to the top of Snowden ; we marched up on foot 

 about four miles. The top of the mountain was covered 

 wdth clouds, so that I lost the prospect usually taken 

 from thence of the adjacent country. Divers rare plants 

 I found on the top and sides of the hill, which were then 

 strangers to me, de quibus consule catolagum. 



September the 3d, I rode from Bethkellert to Bala, in 

 Merionethshire, a long and bad way, though accounted 

 but twenty miles. The assizes were then held there. 



September the 5th, I rode to Dolgehle, a small town, 

 where I first heard of the observations of an Oxford 

 scholar concerning that town, since printed in ' Fuller's 

 Worthies.' It stands under an hill called Caderidris, 

 said to be three miles high, which I ascended, from 

 whence I had a fair prospect of the country round about. 

 I found no new plants, save the globe flower [TroUius 



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