Identifier: wanderingsexcurs00rosc (find matches)
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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e uponThe wirldwinds wing, what time the vexd sea dashedAgainst Norwegias cliffs, to solid massTurned the swoUn billows, and the oerhanging wavesFixd ere they fell. With deference to the learned translator of Giraldus, there isreason to believe this must have been the spot where several of theprinces of Meirions people received from Archbishop Baldwin thesign of the cross, and this extraordinaiy pass the scenery, thatinduced the monk to observe that the territory of Conan, parti-cularly Merionyth, is the rudest district of all Wales; the ridgesof its mountains are very high, ending in sharp peaks, and soirregularly jumbled together, that if the shepherds conversingtogether from their summits should agree to meet, they couldscarcely effect their purpose in a whole day. * It is through the ravine below that the river, at times broad and ■ rapid, (formed by the junction of two streams, springing from the lakes on the south-west side of Snowdon,) comes thundering with * Hoares Giraldus.
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WANDERINGS TIIUOUGH NORTH WALES. 205 resistless force. Near the bridge I observed a small fall, close towhich was formerly a perpendicular ledge of rock, forming one ofthe most remarkable salmon-leaps in Wales. It is seldom thatthe salmon leave the sea until the fall of the year, and bear uptowards the fresh water. Hence the disappointment of travellerswho, uninitiated in the gentle craft, have stood during the summermonths for hours upon the bridge, in order to see the bright-scaledmonarch perform his well-known feat of agility. I was morefortunate a few years ago* than I had expected; the season of theyear being favourable for beholding this curious proof of piscatoryingenuity. It was only after numerous efforts however, that a noblefish made good his ascent, and overtopped the ledge after two orthree failures. After poising himself for a moment to make hiscircular spring, he gave a sudden jirk which scattered all the lesserfry, and placed him in a moment on the higher eminence. Now

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