The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . it is shadowed l)y its iirst foliaizc. lliat seem?designed to hide froiM it the gigantic outrage on which was l)uilt tlie scatteredand rather extensive town of Bethesda, and which has nmde Lord Ienrhyn oneof the wealthiest mendiers ol the House of Lcn-ds. Below the line bridge leading tothe ipiarries the river is lost among deep woods; but. pursiiinL;- it further, onecomes most unexpectedly on a lont: ami romantic series nl cascades, coutinuinguntil the (Jgwen is lost to sight in a dee]. li.
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . it is shadowed l)y its iirst foliaizc. lliat seem?designed to hide froiM it the gigantic outrage on which was l)uilt tlie scatteredand rather extensive town of Bethesda, and which has nmde Lord Ienrhyn oneof the wealthiest mendiers ol the House of Lcn-ds. Below the line bridge leading tothe ipiarries the river is lost among deep woods; but. pursiiinL;- it further, onecomes most unexpectedly on a lont: ami romantic series nl cascades, coutinuinguntil the (Jgwen is lost to sight in a dee]. lilleil with iiii>t ami river has a beautiful and picturisipa- l»end as it passes behind the cottages The Og-oen.] FENEHYX CASTLE. 209 of Betliesda, a mile or so lower down, and tlienceforward it becomes a river some-thing like the Lliigwy in appearance, tumbling- over short cataracts, or wanderingdeep among woods, or emerging now and again amid pleasant green spaces, itsbanks shaded by overhanging trees. As Carnedd Dafydd, and its twin, Llewelyn, are left behind there comes in. THE SWALLOn FALLS {p. 210). sight the steep side and dark, rounded summit of Penmaenmawr, and then, onan opposite and less conspicuous eminence, looking over Bangor and the MenaiStrait, and sunvninded by woods in which the Ogwen is for a while completelyhidden, rises Penrhyn Castle, the seat of Lord Penrhyn, with one great square,tm-reted tower dominating all the country roundabout. Henceforth the riveris little seen until it flows out, through a deep ravine, on to the broad, sandyflats which stretch from Bangor to Beaumaris, its short, swift, troubled lifeending thus in sunlit 2)eace. 210 nrvKUS of gkeat huitais. [Thi lut-wt. The steep mountain-sides wliieli lieni in Lake 0<i\ven at its foot are soblack. Itaie. niniroil, and forl)idding, as to sui^gest the skeleton of an unfinishedworld. A kindlier seenerv opens out beyond the head of the lake, Avhere theriver LuiiWV—the first
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