Wanderings and excursions in North Wales . ucation and the Scriptures, with the revival of some of theold bardic meetings, and others of a more modern, learned, andliterary character, bore equal evidence of that zeal and persever-ance in the higher classes, so intimately connected with the welfareof the people at large. The vale of Llanilltyd can boast of beauties peculiar to itself;and it is to this distinctive feature that so much of the charmwe still find in the recurrence of valleys, streams, and woodlands,still unexhausted, is chiefly to be referred. Here, as I saw it, at theclose of autu
Wanderings and excursions in North Wales . ucation and the Scriptures, with the revival of some of theold bardic meetings, and others of a more modern, learned, andliterary character, bore equal evidence of that zeal and persever-ance in the higher classes, so intimately connected with the welfareof the people at large. The vale of Llanilltyd can boast of beauties peculiar to itself;and it is to this distinctive feature that so much of the charmwe still find in the recurrence of valleys, streams, and woodlands,still unexhausted, is chiefly to be referred. Here, as I saw it, at theclose of autumn,—with the murmurs of the river, the sound of thedashing cataract loud on the ear, mingled with the whistling windsfrom the mountain hollows, the richly diversified foliage assumingstill new lights and shadows with the varying clouds, the partingsunbeams or gathering twilight,—it had more of the wild andsombre than the beautiful, for which it has been so often I bent my steps along the sedgy banks of the brawling stream,. WANDERINGS THROUGH NORTH WALES. 229 and marked the evening shadows lengthening upon the distantheights, and the thin mist gradually shrouding the magnificentprospects spread around, the thoughts of one of my favourite poetsrose fresh in my mind, recalled no less by their singular truthand beauty, than by the hour and the scene. It is just beyond this point the eye commands a prospect ofsurpassing interest and loveliness, one which leaves nothing to bedesired with regard to picturesque effect. The broad waters ofthe Mawddach open in front, often enlivened by skiffs and plea-sure boats; on both sides appear, agreeably alternated, a successionof wooded eminences projecting into the estuary along the banks,and producing a fine scenic illusion, by concealing the terminationof the river, giving it the appearance of a wide, extensive lake. Tothe south, from beyond the banks, is beheld the vast, majestic cliffssurrounding on all sides and half concea
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