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bronzed faces, fresh roses in their cheeks, an increase of cor- 
poreal substance, light hearts, and renovated spirits to enable 
them to enter once more into the battle of life. 
If, however, there be any one who can admire a quaint little 
seaport town, standing on the sea-beach, at the foot and on the in- 
cline of a precipitous rock whose summit may be 1,000 feet above 
the sea-level ; a town consisting of neat grey stone houses, so 
built upon the precipitous cliff that the inhabitants of one set 
of houses look over the chimneys of another row beneath ; — if 
he can find enjoyment in rambling five or six (or as many 
more) miles along- the broad sands or beautiful coast road 
which extends in either direction along the Bay of Cardigan ; 
can appreciate a sail, row, or ramble amongst the hills and 
valleys, and wishes to realize the beauties of the Rhine 
without quitting his native land, or, lastly, if he can 
rouse himself sufficiently to scale the sides of glorious 
Cader, as we did one fine summer afternoon, rambling by the 
way through wooded glens, rich in trees and ferns and flower- 
ing- shrubs, and by the side of rushing waterfalls, climbing 
rugged steeps, sweeping round magnificent hill-sides, stopping 
to ponder over the vestiges of ancient ride in Britain — man's 
handiwork — or to admii-e the grand operations of Nature as 
exhibited in volcanic action, in pumice and heaps of slag-like 
stones and columnar basalt set on end in architectural order, 
treading elastic heath and breathing its invigorating atmo- 
sphere ; if he can find delight in a constantly-extending 
landscape, hill after hill, lake after lake, town after town 
opening to the sight ; clouds spread out like a sea beneath, or 
sweeping past him like volumes of smoke from a cannon's 
mouth, or floating- gently, as snowy fleeces, overhead, until at 
length he has risen so high above the earth that he appears 
to have reached some new celestial region, from which all 
beneath looks small and insignificant, whilst the beholder feels 
himself raised high above all earthly passions and sensations; — 
if, we say, any of our readers can appreciate such delights as 
these, then let them speculate upon and anticipate now, visit 
and enjoy hereafter, and recollect, as we shall do, with life-long- 
remembrance, a vacation trip in North Wales, a sojourn at the 
little town of Barmouth, at the entrance of the river Mawd- 
clach, in Merionethshire, and many a pleasant health-reviving- 
ramble through its valleys and across its mountain ranges. 
