et the Dee is a wide and roaring torrent. Yet even in the dry
season it is difficult to conceive how anybody could take this leap, for
on the other side is a rock rising high above the dark gurgling stream.
On observing the opposite side, however, narrowly, I perceived that there
was a small hole a little way up the rock, in which it seemed possible to
rest one's foot for a moment. So I supposed that if the leap was ever
taken, the individual who took it darted the tip of his foot into the
hole, then springing up seized the top of the rock with his hands, and
scrambled up. From either side the leap must have been a highly
dangerous one--from the farther side the leaper would incur the almost
certain risk of breaking his legs on a ledge of hard rock, from this of
falling back into the deep horrible stream, which would probably suck him
down in a moment.

From the Llam y Lleidyr I went to the canal and walked along it till I
came to the house of the old man who sold coals, and who had put me in
mind of Smollett's Morgan; he was now standing in his little coal-yard,
leaning over the pales. I had spoken to him on two or three occasions
subsequent to the one on which I made his acquaintance, and had been
every time more and more struck with the resemblance which his ways and
manners bore to those of Smollett's character, on which account I shall
call him Morgan, though such was not his name. He now told me that he
expected that I should build a villa and settle down in the
neighbourhood, as I seemed so fond of it. After a little discourse,
induced either by my questions or from a desire to talk about himself, he
related to me his history, which, though not one of the most wonderful, I
shall repeat. He was born near Aberdarron in Caernarvonshire, and in
order to make me understand the position of the place, and its bearing
with regard to some other places, he drew marks in the coal-dust on the
earth. His father was a Baptist minister, who when Morgan was about six
years of age, went to live at Canol Lyn, a place at some little distance
from Port Heli. With his father he continued till he was old enough to
gain his own maintenance, when he went to serve a farmer in the
neighbourhood. Having saved some money young Morgan departed to the
foundries at Cefn Mawr, at which he worked thirty years with an interval
of four, which he had passed partly in working in slate quarries, and
partly upon the canal. About four years b