76 BRITISH MOUNTAINS. 
Rgi'eeable prospect, the vista being beautified by a diversity 
of bushes, shrubs, and bircli woods, beside many little ver- 
dant spots. The sea and the shore are also seen. 
At the summit, the view extends at once across the 
Island, eastwards towards the German sea, and westv-ard 
to the Atlantic Ocean. Nature here appears on a majes- 
tic scale, and the vastness of the prospect engages the whole 
attention, at the same time that the objects in view are of no 
common dimensions. Just over the opening of the sound._ 
at the south-west corner of Mnll, Colonsay rises out of 
the sea, like a shade of midst, at the distance of more than 
ninety miles. Shuna and Lismore appear like small spol» 
of rich verdure, and, though nearly thirty miles distant; 
seem quite under the spectator. 'I'lie low ])arts of Jura 
cannot be discerned, nor any part of Isla ; far less the 
coast of Ireland, as has been asserted. Such is, liowever, 
the wide extent of view, that it extends ] 70 miles from 
the horizon of the sea at the Murray Firtli, on the N. E-> 
to the Island of Colonsay, on the S.W, 
On the N.E. side of Ben Nes'is is an almost perpendi- 
cular precipice, cerlainlv not less than HOO feet in depth t 
probably more, as it aiipetirs to exceed the third part of the 
entire lieight of the nionnlain. A stranger is astonisiicd at 
the sight of this dreadful rock, which has a quantity of 
snow lodged in its bosom throughout the whole year. The 
sound of a .stone thrown over the did’ to the bottom, can' 
not be heard when it falls, .so that it is irapo.ssible to ascer- 
tain in that way the height of llic precipice. 
SNOWDON. 
Tuts is the loftiest of the Welch mountains, i*s elevatiot’ 
above the level of the sea being ;t/20 feet, nc.'.ily three 
<|uarters of a mile. It is accessible on one .side only, 
Banks being in every otiier quarter 'preci[;ilou.s. It.s a.sped 
soon convinces the spectator that he is not to look to tht^ 
Alps alone, or to the rocky regions of .'Mtal, bord.ering oo 
Siberia, for romantic scent s of wildness, cnttfcs'r.u, an‘j 
disorder. Snowdon presents them in all their tude an*' 
native m.ajesty. 
In the ascent, a narrow path, not more than nine feet 
vidth, leads along the margin of a (rightful precipice 
