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MEMOIH OP PENNANT. 
This volume leaves great part of Wales unexplored, 
particularly the higher and wilder districts, and he 
desired to render it more complete by visiting those 
parts. An excursion is undertaken to Snowdon and 
the alpine range of the country, the results of which 
were published, under the title of “A Journey to 
Snowdon and a third journey is peiformed, which, 
with the Snowdonia, forms the second volume of the 
Tour iu Wales, and appeared about 1781. This 
is illustrated with many plates, and is written, like 
the first, with more attention to the history and an- 
tiquities than to the works of nature. There are, 
however, occasionally short notices regarding both 
the botany and zoology. In the former he was as- 
sisted by Lightfoot, to whose inspection, most proba- 
bly, his collections on returning would be submitted. 
In the zoology there is a notice regarding the beaver, 
which shews that that animal was once known to the 
Welsh. He mentions that on “ the Conway there 
is a deep, wide, and still water, called Llyn yr 
Afangc, or the Beaver’s Pool ; our ancestors also 
called them, with great propriety. Host Lyday, or 
broad-tailed animal. Their skin was of such esteem, 
as to be valued at an hundred and twenty pence,” — 
a large aura in those days, and still greater when 
compared with the price of the skin of other animals ; 
an ermine, otter, wolf, or fox, were only valued at 
twelve pence. 
In another part of the work he mentions a singular 
breeding-place for the heron, both from the situation 
