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Title: Wanderings and excursions in North Wales
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Roscoe, Thomas, 1791-1871
Subjects: Wales, North -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : C. Tilt, and Simpkin and co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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way, these presented themselves to view a successionof all those nobler features of landscape which I had not beforeseen under the same points of view. From the summit of theGreat Glyder, I marked the scenes through which I had passedon the previous days, spread on every side in novel beauty andmagnificence. To the west lay the vale and extensive lakes ofLlanberis; more near the barren tract of Waun Oer and theLesser Glyder,—on one side the towering precipice of Clogwyn-duoverhanging the dark Llyn Idwall, the deep fissured rock of Twll-du, the strangely indented Trifaen, the massy Carnedds of Davidand Llewellyn; and below the yawning chasm of Bcnglog openinginto Nant Frangon, and the Ogwen pouring its waters into thedeep glens below. The surface of the ground upon which I stood,—the summit ofthe Glyder Fawr,—had a most singular appearance. It seemed asif it had been washed by a tremendous sea; the stones lay loose,and strewn at hazard as on some wild coast; the rocks, bare, clo-
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M. J WANDERINGS TIIUOUGII NORTH WALES. 150 ven, and jagged, lay crossing each other in different directions;while the huge, pointed Trifaen, with its sharp, angular projections,height above height, seemed like some huge monster with humanaspect strangely distorted, scowling upon the Carnedd y Gwynt,the Shepherds Hill of Storms. And well, at the moment, appearedthis desert tract of Snowdon to have been thus designated, as Imarked the traces of the tempests far and fierce career around andon all sides, with the naked peaks that reared their grey crests tothe clouds. I passed the pool called Llyn y Cwm,* and over thechilly mountain-tract of Waun Oer, through the steep, brokendescent into Cwm Bochlwyd, and thence to the Ogwen lake, tomark the stern character of the scenery round Vale Frangon. No where in the region of the higher hills had I observed deepertraces of the flood and the tempest than amidst these tremendousbarriers of steep rock and precipice which bid defiance to thesteps of

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