CAPEL CURIG  , a tourist resort in Carnarvonshire, North Wales, 141 M. from Bangor . It is a collection of a few houses, too scattered to form a village properly so called . At the Roberts hotel is shown on a window pane the supposed signature of Wellington . The road from Bettws y coed, past the Swallow Falls to Capel Curig, and thence to Llanberis and Carnarvon, is very interesting, grand and lonely . Excellent fishing is to be had here, chiefly for trout . In summer, coaching tours discharge numbers of visitors daily; the railway station is Bettws (London & North-Western railway) . Capel Curig means " chapel of Curig," a British saint mentioned in Welsh poetry . The place is a centre for artists, geologists and botanists, for the ascent of Snowdon, Moel Siabod, Glydyr Fawr, Glydyr Fach, Tryfan, &c., and for visiting Llyn Ogwen, Llyn Idwal, TwIl du (Devil's Kitchen) . Nant Ffrancon and the Penrhyn quarries .