226 ON THE GEOLOGY AND STATISTICS 
Nantle, enters the sea nearly three miles to the north of 
Clynog. 
Except the Lake of Bala, in Merionethshire, no district 
of North Wales affords larger and more beautiful lakes 
than this chain of Snowdon. Those of Llanberris, Ogwen, 
Nantle, and Llanlyfne, are the finest. But in grand, bold, 
rocky mountain scenery, the two lakes of Llanberris sur- 
pass them all. These, and some others, are interesting to 
the angler, as well as the lover of scenery, as they abound 
in char, trout, and salmon. 
From appearances so varied, from a chain of mountains 
rising so far above the plain, deeply furrowed by the storm, 
conical in their outline, and excavated by numerous tor- 
rents into deep hollows or glens, almost invariably filled 
with lakes, and, from the less elevated parts being inter- 
sected by several rivers, with banks affording a bold, rich, 
and varied scenery, the landscape cannot fail to be highly 
interesting. 
As the rocks of the Carnarvon side of the Menai basin 
are so very hard as almost to resist the action of the wea- 
ther, the soil on the declivities of the mountains is thin, 
scanty, and gravelly. Towards the interior of this side, 
although deeper, it is of a very light texture. In the vale 
of Ugivulchy, the soil is more abundantj and of a loamy 
nature, owing to the softer texture of the rocks which en- 
close it on the south. Along the shores of Beaumaris Bay, 
it is deeper, and more argillaceous. To the north of Car- 
narvon, for three or four miles along the Menai Strait, the 
soil covering the secondary rocks, limestone and small 
clayey strata, is rich and productive. Also between Car- 
narvon and Clynog it is generally good, partaking in some 
places of a sandy loam, admirably fitted for turnip hus- 
bandry. It is surprising that, in this country, where rainy 
weather is so prevalent, peat-soil is so rarely to be met 
