hethin, interpreted, is a keen pirate.

{5} Eryri likewise signifies an excrescence or scrofulous eruption. It
is possible that many will be disposed to maintain that in the case of
Snowdon the word is intended to express a rugged excrescence or eruption
on the surface of the earth.

{6} It will not be amiss to observe that the original term is gwyddfa
but gwyddfa; being a feminine noun or compound commencing with g, which
is a mutable consonant, loses the initial letter before y the definite
article--you say Gwyddfa a tumulus, but not y gwyddfa _the_ tumulus.

{7} Essay on the Origin of the English Stage by Bishop Percy. London,
1793.

{8} The above account is chiefly taken from the curious Welsh book
called "Dych y prif Oesoedd."

{9} Spirits.

{10} Eel.

{11} For an account of this worm, which has various denominations, see
article "Fasciola Hepatica" in any Encyclopaedia.

{12} As the umbrella is rather a hackneyed subject two or three things
will of course be found in the above eulogium on an umbrella which have
been said by other folks on that subject; the writer, however, flatters
himself that in his eulogium on an umbrella two or three things will also
be found which have never been said by any one else about an umbrella.

{13} Bitter root.

{14} Amongst others a kind of novel called "The Adventures of Twm Shon
Catty, a Wild Wag of Wales." It possesses considerable literary merit,
the language being pure, and many of the descriptions graphic. By far
the greater part of it, however, would serve for the life of any young
Welsh peasant, quite as well as for that of Twm Shon Catti. Its grand
fault is endeavouring to invest Twm Shon with a character of honesty, and
to make his exploits appear rather those of a wild young waggish fellow
than of a robber. This was committing a great mistake. When people take
up the lives of bad characters the more rogueries and villainies they
find, the better they are pleased, and they are very much disappointed
and consider themselves defrauded by any attempt to apologise for the
actions of the heroes. If the thieves should chance to have reformed,
the respectable readers wish to hear nothing of their reformation till
just at the close of the book, when they are very happy to have done with
them for ever.

{15} Skazka O Klimkie. Moscow, 1829.

{16} Hanes Crefydd Yn Nghymru.

{17} The good gentlewoman was probably thinking of the celebrated king