[9] The expression was used in E. D. Clarke’s Tour through Wales, 1791.
[10] The word “glidder” is given in the English Dialect Dictionary as meaning a loose stone. Cf. the line in Scott’s “Shepherd’s Tale”: “Among the glidders grey.”
[11] “I ken the place, as mony does, in fair daylight, but how to find it by moonshine, amang sae mony crags and stanes, as like to each other as the collier to the deil, is mair than I can tell.”—Heart of Midlothian.
[12] A proof of the sentiment attaching to Snowdon may be found in the number of counties which claim to have a distant view of it from their own highest points; we are told, for example, that it can be seen from the Worcestershire Beacon, at Malvern, across nearly a hundred miles of hill and plain. From what I have been able to discern of the Welsh heights as viewed from the hills of Shropshire, at a range of about fifty or sixty miles, I suspect that “Snowdon” must often be understood as a generic term, and that outlying summits such as the Arenig Fawr, near Bala, sometimes do duty for their chief.
[13] Description of the Scenery of the Lakes, 1823.
[14] W. Gilpin, 1786.
[15] See Climbing in the British Isles, by W. P. Haskett Smith, i. 86.
[16] Cf. the name of the well-known Nant Ffrancon, meaning “the Valley of the Beavers.”
[17] W. Gilpin’s Observations on the Mountains of Cumberland, 1786.
[18] See an interesting article on “Wild Goats in Wales,” in Country Life Illustrated, March 2, 1901. Also Mr. J. G. Millais’ British Mammals, iii. 213.