English: Identifier: annalsantiquitie01nich

Title: Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ... with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families Year: 1872 (1870s) Authors: Nicholas, Thomas, 1820-1879 Subjects: Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Reader Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Text Appearing Before Image: o the right of the man watchingfor the trout, are of less ambitious elevation ; and so is Mod Siabod, to your own right(2,872 feet). As you gaze at Carnedd Dafydd, Great Ormes Head out yonder in the sea isalmost in the same line, and the intervening space is crowded with the multitude of craggyheights and misty bluffs, with their branchings on either side, like ribs proceeding from thebackbone of a monster, not unaccompanied by fearful chasms and precipitous steeps, whichsuggest a descent into Acheron. These end in the frowning bluff of Pcnmacn-m:x^^r, whichseems to repeat itself with increased dimensions a litde farther on in the Great Ormes Head.You see the Conwy river rising from L/yn Conwy in the south, and running due north to thesea at Conway. You see Nant y Gwryd running through the Capel Curig lake, meeting AfonLlugwy beyond Capel Curig, and the two performing in junction the leaps of the SwallowFalls on their way to the Conwy, by the paradise of Bettws y Coed, and the Vale of

Text Appearing After Image: Penrhvn Castle: Seat ok the Right Hon. Lord Tenrhvn {from a photo, by Bedford). Llanrwst. In a contrary direction, less than a mile from the point where the Llugwy turnsto meet the Capel Curig stream, you see the rivulet of Nant Francon making its way throughLlyn Ogwen, and on amid the sublime desolations which crowd the chasm between CarneddDafydd and the Garn and Bwlch y Cywion, till, passing the Penrhyn slate-quarries and thattown of slate-quarrymen, of Palestinian name, Bethesda, it reaches the sea at Bangor. Thisstream traverses a region not more marvellous for its physical grandeur than for its inex-haustible wealth. Here are developed in their most perfect condition the Cambrian strata,which yield the celebrated Penrhyn slates, known and sought after all the civilized world over.The great estate of Penrhyn Castle was of respectable value before the development of theBethesda and Penrhyn slate quarries, but now the net income drawn out of these apparentlyexhaustless sources coun

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