{312} “The river is wider at this part,” says Mr. Gilpin, “and takes a sweep round a towering promontory of rock, which forms the side-screen on the left, and is the grand feature of the view. It is not a broad fractured face of rock; but rather a woody hill, from which large rocky projections, in two or three places, burst out, rudely hung with twisting branches and shaggy furniture, which, like mane round the lion’s head, give a more savage air to these wild exhibitions of nature. Near the top a pointed fragment of solitary rock, rising above the rest, has rather a fantastic appearance; but it is not without its effect in marking the scene. A great master in landscape has adorned an imaginary view with a circumstance exactly similar: Stabat acuta silex, præcisis undique saxis, — dorso insurgens, altissima visu, Dirarum nidis domus opportuna volucrum, — prona jugo, lævum incumbebat ad amnem.” ÆN. VIII. 233. {317} Tanner’s Notitia Monastica. {321} Warner’s first Walk through Wales. {333} The isles of Anglesea and Man are discovered from Snowdon.