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rious heaps of different magnitudes, just as it happened, and thus formed what we call mountains.

We arrived at the inn, at Towen Merionith, late in the evening; where we had the pleasure of being fpectators of a Welsh affembly; they invited us to join them, but our fatigue was too great to permit us; added to which our dress was not altogether fuitable to the occa fion; though, from what I could obferve of thefe honeft Cambrians, we should not have been very outre in our appearance, if we had ventured amongst them, habited as we were. I cannot help relating a remarkable inftance of fimplicity, that happened to me here the fame evening. As foon as I had got into bed, I found the sheets were extremely damp, and having fuffered fo much lately in catching

cold,

cold, I thought it a neceffary precaution, and indeed but common prudence, to throw them afide. When the maid came to take away the candle, fhe would not be convinced that the fheets were damp: "Lard fir (said she), it be impoffible, for they have been a slept in four or five times within this laft week." We left Towen (which is about a mile from the fea), yesterday morning, for there is nothing particularly attracting in that place, or captivating to the eye of a stranger. It was our intention to have reached Aberistwith last evening, but were obliged to take shelter from the fury of a storm, in a folitary house, not far from the ferry at Aberdovy, where we were detained. much against our inclinations the whole night; but we have happily arrived here this morning without any further obstacles. Aberistwith is a very refpectable bathing

place.

place. There are fome fine remains of a castle, that formerly commanded the approach from the fea on one fide; and that to the town, from the land on the other.

The trade of Aberiftwith is not by any means contemptible; great quantities of coal, and lead, are found in the neighbourhood, and shipped from this port to different parts of England.

Adieu, my dear fir, and believe me, I feel the greatest pleasure in fubfcribing myfelf,

Your fincere friend, &c.

I. H.

LET

IN

LETTER VH.

THE OLD PASSAGE, Auguft 2, 1794.

my laft, my dear friend, I faid that you would not hear from me until I reached Bath; but I find I fhall be detained here till the morning, the weather proving too rough for the paffage boat, to venture with their cargo of live and dead stock, and therefore I cannot better fill up the intervening time than by writing to you.

I did not part from my old companions until we reached Llanindovrey, fo that we had the pleasure of seeing Pont-arfinach together, otherwife called the Devil's bridge. It is the largest cataract in Wales, and well worth the traveller's attention.

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tention. About one hundred yards from the bridge, there is a house of accommodation for company, though I cannot fay much in favour of it; however, it is pleasantly fituated, and overlooks the deep and woody glen, into which, from a prodigious height, the waters of the cataract fall, with a deafening noise. With infinite labour and fatigue, I got down to the bottom of this glen, or chafm. I did not undertake the perilous expedition alone; but neither my companion or myself were gratified or recompensed for our trouble, because the cataract is so obfcured by bushes and underwood, that, at the foot of it, it is not all difcernible.

Tregarron is a miferable hole, in the which however we were constrained to Beep, and to break the windows in our

bed

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