A PEDESTRIAN TOUR THROUGH NORTH WALES, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS. By J. HUCKS, B. A. With gold and gems if Chilian mountains glow, London: Printed for J. DEBRETT, Piccadilly; and J. Sold alfo by W. H. LUNN, B. FLOWER, and J. DEIGHTON, 1795. PREFACE.. AT a time fo peculiarly alarming to the affairs of this country, that every hour comes attended with fome fresh calamity: when reafon and juftice are fuffering in the conflict of nations: when rapine and oppreffion are defolating the fairest regions of Europe in short, when the common interests of humanity, when every dear and invaluable privilege, that can render fociety lovely and defirable, is altogether a 3 altogether neglected or forgotten, and the happy re-union of liberty and tranquillity, more the object of our wishes than our expectations; in fuch an eventful, but fatal, period of the political drama, the following letters may probably be considered as an intrufion upon the public attention, too much abforbed in the nice intrigues of the cabinet and the field, to unbend their thoughts to lighter purfuits, when the great fcale of our political existence is in danger of finking for ever. Left any fuch argument should be adduced against him, the author begs leave to make one obfervation, (viz.) That he has written neither for the statesman, the general, or the politician; he is fenfible, that from the nature of the subject, his little work will not be extended amongst a very large clafs of readers; the amufement of an individual was originally the fole object of the following letters, but he has ventured to make them public, under the hope that they may, in fome measure, contribute to the fatisfaction of those who have not seen, yet may wish to become familiar with, the outlines of a country, fo diffimilar in every respect to England; and to whom a flight sketch of the most prominent |