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fee the fun rife. We accordingly hired 
a guide, and having made the other ne- 
ceflary preparations, fallied forth about 
half an hour before midnight. The moon 
was a little pait the full, and fhone with 
unutual fplendor, filvering over the tops 
of the mountains, while their bafes were 
in deep fhadow, and the valley was occu- 
pied by the mift from the lake. As we 
paited through the village, and by a fo- 
iitary farm houfe, we caufed a general 
alarm among the dogs; and their bark- 
ing fet in motion the fheep in the neigh- 
bouring fields; fo that, by the time we 
reached the foot of the mountain, cvery 
fwell of the wind was loaded with the 
tinkling of fheep-bells and the barking 
of dogs: as we continued to mount, the 
voices became fainter and more confufed, 
and when we had reached the height 
ef, perhaps two thoufand feet, were 
heard no more. Here we ftopped a thort 
time to reft, and, fitting down on a frag- 
ment of rock, enjoyed, at leifure, the 
fcene before us. The tops of moft of 
the near mountains were diftinétily 
vifible; but on fome the clouds were 
refting, which, by the light of the moon, 
might eafily be miftaken for fnow. The 
vale of Llanberris, at our feet, was 
feemingly changed into a wide river, re- 
flecting in one place the moon beams, 
through a break in the mountains; the 
fky was of a deep pure blue; and nothing 
difturbed the ftill repofe of the icene, 
except a cafual breeze, fweeping along 
the fide of the hill, and gradually fink- 
ing into filence. We fat for fome time 
fpeechlefs, ezch one abforbed in his own 
contemplations, till the voice of our guide 
dmonithed us to proceed: we cbeye 
the fummons, and, after climbing three 
hours and a half, reached the fummit. 
We had now nothing to do, but to wait 
near one’ hour for the fun: the moon 
grew paler and paler, and the profpect 
lefs interefting; our fhoes were wet 
through, and we began to fuffer much 
from the cold, a thermometor which we 
took with us being funk to 34 degrees, 
‘Theeaft became very much clouded,ahaze 
having crept over the fea: the fun rofe 
_fhrouded in impenetrable clouds, and the 
only part of the diftant profpeét which 
was vifible, was the Ifle of Anglefea, ex- 
tended beneath us like a map, and the 
bay of Cardigan, Hunger and cold made 
us rather impatient; and a few minutes 
after fun-rife, we began to defcend the 
oppofite fide of the mountain, towards 
Beddgelert. After a very fatiguing march, 
for we found it much worfe te defeend 
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than to mount, we arrived, about nine 
in the morning, ' 
July 6, at Beddgelert, where, to our 
great joy, we founda very neat comfert- 
able little inn, by the fide of a beautiful 
mountain torrent, well ftored with trout. 
Snowden is unqueftionably the mof 
lofty mountain in Wales; its fummit is 
reckoned about 3600 feet above the quay 
at Caernarvon. The afcent on the. fide 
of this laft mentioned place is fo gradual, — 
that it 1s poflible to ride almoft to the top; 
but towards Llanberris it is very precipi- 
tous, fo much fe, that through the yalley 
is {carcely half a mile wide, yet the lake 
is vifible from the higheft pomt. The 
mountain is compofed of three ftages: 
the firft, about 2oco feet in height, is a’ 
rocky fheep-walk; the next 1200 feet 
is boggy and covered with mots: the 
third region is about 400 feet high, of a 
conical ihape, compofed of lootfe, bare 
maffes of coarfe /cbyius. ‘The area of the 
fummit ‘Is not above Yive or fix yards 
{quare, protected by a rude breaft-work 
of loofe ftones, the crevices cf which are 
_adorned by the fasxtfraga ftellaris, which. 
is the only vegetable that braves the ri- 
gours of fo lotty an expofure. We were 
too much fatigued to botanize during 
our deicent, yet we could not avoid re-_ 
marking and admiring the beautiful 
pteris crifoa, which {prings luxuriantly 
out of the rocks, about half way up the 
mountain. v4 
In the afternoon, we proceeded to- 
wards Tan-y-bwlch, in the vale of Fef- 
tiniog. The firft two miles led us along 
the courfe of a torrent, through fome 
beautiful rich meadows, after which 
the vale fuddenly contraéts to a deep 
glen juft wide enough to admit the n- 
ver and a narrow road; the rocks, on 
each fide are perpendicular, and worn 
into feveral caverns, one of which is now 
worked as a copper mine. At the jars 
ther end of this pafs, we croffed the tor- 
rent, by a fingle arched bridge,. cailed 
Pont-Aberglaflyn, beneath which is a 
falmon leap, but now, owing to a long 
fuceeffion of dry weather, the fall was 
very trifling. From Pont-Aberglaflyn, 
the road lay over feveral {mall hilis exs 
tending along the edge of the-mountains. 
On our left hand, we looked downinto a 
fucceffion of narrow uninhabited vallies, 
beautifully wooded, and each with its 
dafhing torrent. On our right, we were 
prefented with grand views of the fea, 
and the eftuaries of Treth-Mawr and 
Traeth-Bychan, bounding the long 
vifias, through the yailics. At length, 
: We 
