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bers as efficient in the work of creation, he was not more 
absurd than we are when we speak of nature and of the laws 
of nature as if they had any real existence. “ The number 
three was spoken of as defining or limiting the universe and 
all things, having end, middle, and beginning, and so being 
the number of the whole.”* 
Snowdon, as is well known, presents from the eastern side 
the aspect of three peaks to one mountain, and the highest 
point is called Yr Wycldfci , which seems to imply “the 
Presence.” 
“This untranslateable word signifies ‘the place, of presence] or that 
wherein the Deity makes himself personally manifest, being compounded of 
via a place and gwydd presence. Gwydd is also knowledge, and means trees, - 
which is probably the radical sense, and borrowed from the Druids.”f 
SNOWDON, FROM CAPEL CURRIG. 
* This, as is well known, is thoroughly Welsh. We have the same notion 
in the oracles of Zoroaster. 
II avn yap tv Koapuy XapiTru rpidg, i)g /. tovag 
’Apxv TrdarjQ Tyrjcrtiijg v 8t r) ra^ig 
’Eig rpLct yap vovg ei7T£ irarpog ripivtaBai enravra , 
where the one supreme Father “ differentiates ” all things, and speaks all 
into three. St. Augustine tells us 1 that in the Punic W'bv, three , signified 
salvation, salus ; perhaps Gad (Jupiter), good fortune. — Trans. Bib. Arch., 
iii. 171. t Britannia after the Bomans p. 32. 
1 Kenrick’s Phoenicia , p. 166, 
