Red, the favorite companion and staunch adherent of the son of Robert ap Meredydd, one of the followers of the great Glendower, whose fortunes, through evil and through good report, he cheerfully partook.

It is situated in a deep hollow, which appears to have been thus formed by the accidental position of the falling of the adjacent rocks. The poet's muse must have been, indeed, a shrew, and his satire poignant and cruel in the extreme, to have brought an enemy upon his track into so desolate and almost appalling a sanctuary as he and his brave chieftain selected in their evil day.

I was not a little interested, also, while passing through these wilder Snowdon-hills, in comparing the bold, picturesque sketches of the enthusiastic artist with the real magnificent objects before my eyes. The subjects, especially those taken in the vicinity of the valley and lake Idwall, struck me by their faithful and characteristic delineation: and I could not mistake the sites, as I took my way into the pass and deep valley of Nant Frangon. Here I entered the road by the terrific Benglog, where the once dreadful horse-path, mentioned by Mr. Pennant, is now, by the industry and ingenuity of man, exchanged for the safe and admirable highway to Holyhead, which presents some of the grandest features of Alpine scenery.

But soon my approach towards the Menai, and the level tracts of Anglesey, reminded me of the extensive range of country that was yet to be traversed; and bending my steps down the heights, I pursued my route towards Bangor, as will further appear in another chapter.

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