This mountain is the terminating point of the long Carnarvonshire chain.
It is 1550 feet high, from the level of the sea. As late as the year
1772 there was only a narrow and dangerous path along the shelf upon its
side; but since that period, a grant was made by Parliament, and a
voluntary subscription entered into for the formation of the present
useful and safe road, “the most sublime terrace in the British Isles.”
It is guarded on the sea-side by a wall of about five feet high, add
supported in many parts by deep walls below.—See pages 5 and 15.