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Gravel, and an innumerable number of R°fragments from a pound weight to twenty ,and are sometimes composed of huge ot ^from an hundred pound weight totuns. *,

3. In the Valleys tf/Llianberys and b* 3 j

Phrankon, the People fnd it necessary i0 rt ,.their Grounds often of the Stones whichMountain floods bring down ; andyet not# 1flanding this care, they often lose confideVparcels of Land. . jj

4. I affirm, That by this means not ofljf ^Mountains as confifl of much Earth and 'Stones, or of softer Rocks,and such as are ^yeasily dissoluble, are thus wajled, but alfi ^hardest Rocks in Wales; and they seem t° .as weighty, and of as firm and close a tetc* .as Marble it self. It happen d in the fa jjsof Nant-Phrancon, Anno 1 685. that p a, K\fa Rock of one of the impendent Cliffs, cJ .jjyr Hysvse, became Jo undermined (^dotdf.^by the continual Rains andsubterraneous fa 1of Water occasioned by them ) that lofitif,hold it fell down in several pieces, and jpassage down a fleep and craggy Cliff, difi°"othousands of other Stones, whereof many n ’ .intercepted e re they came down to the fa . ^but as much came down as ru 'nid a small

of Ground ; and several Stones were seats'jat leafl zoo yards asunder. In this ^

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