part of the north divifion of our principality. The total amount of the waste lands in Wales, is computed to be about 1,629,307 acres, and great part of this is ftated to be incurable; but I am inclined to believe that if two or three regiments of foldiers (inftead of fpending in barracks a life totally unproductive to themfelves, and ufelefs to fociety in every inftance, except for the heroic and benevolent purposes of murder, rapine, and oppreffion), were set to work upon them at a fhilling each per diem, exclufive of their pay, the country would, in a short time, affume a very different afpect. The price of labour is greater in South, than it is in North Wales, and yet in Caermarthenfhire, which is a fouthern county, labourers are only paid ten pence a day in fummer, and find their own diet, and eight pence in the winter months. The

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land tax a few years ago produced 43,7521.

There are numerous mines of coal, flate, copper, &c. that are a great fource of employment to the poor.-What trade they have, is, for the most part, inland, and confifts chiefly in horned cattle, lead, copper, and coal. Great part of the land, and particularly in Cardiganfhire, is wild pasture, and, in its present state, only fit to feed that hardy kind of cattle fo peculiar to the country itself; confequently sheep, cows, &c. are very cheap, and will continue fo until agriculture flourishes more than it does at prefent; or, in other words, until it becomes more profitable to extend tillage, and fow feed for the food of man, than dedicate the rude and natural produce of the earth to the nourishment of cattle; for, in proportion to the extenfion

of agriculture, the price of cattle will be advanced, because the number is thereby diminished, and the demand for them greater. The Welsh are probably defcended from the Belgic Galls, and hence called Galles, or Walles, i. e. Strangers. The country was alfo formerly, inhabited by three tribes of Britons, the Silures, Dimetæ, and Ordovices. It preserved its independency until the thirteenth century.

Wales fends twenty-four reprefentatives to parliament, twelve for the counties, and the fame number for the boroughs.

If the traveller wishes to fee Bangor, he muft cross the Menai from Anglesea

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at the Bangor ferry; but we had been informed that there was fcarcely any thing worthy of particular notice at that place, which account has been fince confirmed to me, by a gentleman with whom I am well acquainted, and who, in company with fome others, made a fimilar excurfion to our's, and in a fimilar manner. It is from his notes that I am enabled to give fome account of Llanberis. road from Bangor to Llanberis is over fome ftupendous mountains, commanding, as one might have expected, a very extenfive, and not an uninteresting prospect. The vale of Llanberis may contend the point of fuperiority, with respect to beauty, perhaps with any in Wales; the mountains on one fide being entirely without verdure, and rifing almost perpendicular from the vale, whilft those on the other fide appear to be highly cultivated;

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the vale itself confisting mostly of fine pas. ture ground, fome fmall lakes at one extremity, and a few ruftic cots at the other; here is also a copper mine in the hands of the Macclesfield company. From Llanberis to Caernarvon, which is about ten miles, the road lies at first over high and unpleasant mountains, and is afterwards fucceeded by a low flat, equally dull and disagreeable.

Eight miles from Dolegelley are the falls of the Caen and Morthway. The highest part of Snowdon is called the Wyddfa, from whence, according to Pennant, its most credible altitude above the level of the fea, is one thousand one hundred and eighty nine yards. The height of the Cader above the green at Dólegelley is about nine hundred and fifty yards. The road to Machynleth, by

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