Beddgelert, together with the scenery around that place, have already been defcribed. I fhall therefore, in this chapter, fuppofe myself proceeding fouthwards, immediately from
From this celebrated bridge there are two roads to Tanybwlch, the low or new road, and the mountain road, the former of which occupies about ten, and the latter eight miles. Till within the laft two years, carriages were usually taken along the mountain-road, a series of rocky steeps, which were confidered fo dangerous, that most persons preferred walking for at least five of the eight miles: and feveral people, to avoid it, have even gone more than forty miles round. For about two miles, this romantic, though rude way, commands feveral beautiful and extended profpects. From one very elevated fituation, I had in my former journey a most delightful view of all the fine and mountainous country around me: Harlech and Criccieth castles were both in fight, and the long extent of ground forming the promontory of Llŷn, was vifible even to its extremity.
Beyond the bridge, on the new road, which is formed through the more flat and level country towards the fands, the varied scene of wood, rock, and mountain, is uncommonly fine. In fome fituations the view is confined to the immediately fur