. The earth and its inhabitants ... during theglacial epoch, was a centre from which six glaciers descended the divergentvalleys extending at its foot. The greatest of these occupied the valley ofLlanberis, covering it to a depth of 1,200 feet. At that time the Uyns, or lakes ofgreen-hued water, which occupy the hollows of this mountain group, were filled 48 THE BRITISH ISLES. with ice, and the frozen rlNers probably extended to the sea, conveying into itthe blocks of rock and detritus resulting from the waste of the mountains. Thebards look upon Snowdon as a kind of Parnassus. It is their Mou
. The earth and its inhabitants ... during theglacial epoch, was a centre from which six glaciers descended the divergentvalleys extending at its foot. The greatest of these occupied the valley ofLlanberis, covering it to a depth of 1,200 feet. At that time the Uyns, or lakes ofgreen-hued water, which occupy the hollows of this mountain group, were filled 48 THE BRITISH ISLES. with ice, and the frozen rlNers probably extended to the sea, conveying into itthe blocks of rock and detritus resulting from the waste of the mountains. Thebards look upon Snowdon as a kind of Parnassus. It is their Mount of Awen,or, of the Muses, and tlie falling in of its summit is to herald the day of judg-ment. Other summits rise to the north-east of the Pass of Llanberis, almost rivallingSnowdon in height. Amongst them are Glyder Fawr (3,227 feet), CarneddDafydd (3,430 feet), Carnedd Llewellyn (3,482 feet), and Y Foel Fras (3,091feet). In no other part of AVales are mountains met with equalling these iu Fig. 21.— 1 : 425, Depth under 5 Fathoms 5 to 10 Fathoms Over 10 Miles. elevation, and as many of them rise close by the sea, the aspect they presentis bold in the extreme, and they remind us, if not of the Alps, at allevents of their lower spurs. Cader Idris (2,958 feet), the Seat of Idris, afabulous warrior and astronomer, is a mountain of volcanic origin, hardly inferiorto Snowdon in the grandeur of the prospect which it affords those who climbits craggy summits to look down upon the chaotic masses of rock which extendthence to Cardigan Bay. In a deep hollow on its flank lies Llyn Y Can, oneof the finest tarns in the principality. A branch stretches north-eastward tothe Aran Mowddwy (2,970 feet) and Berwyn range (2,716 feet) : from the lattermay be seen the valley of the Dee, and Lake Bala, in which that river rises.
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