24 HARLECH TO BARMOUTH. 



paflage, and is .blown into every window that is for a 

 moment left open. In rainy weather this fand, on the 

 contrary, renders the place very dirty and unplea- 

 fant. The buildings are exceedingly irregular, and 

 in moft inftances very bad» Notwithftanding all 

 thefe diladvantages, Bai'mouth is frequented during 

 the fummer fealon by many genteel families from 

 Wales, and the weft: of Engfend, as a fea-bathing 

 place^ Its origin, as the refort of invalids, has 

 been attributed to perfons frequenting the banks of 

 this part of the river for the fake of the fcurvy- 

 grafs, which grows there in abundance *. 



The company muft: n€ceflarily find it a njofi un- 

 comfortable place, for the inn (the Corfygedol arms); 

 is at times almoll buried in fand, and no perfon can 

 poiiibiy walk many yards without having it over his 

 ihoes. Were it not for the civility and friendly at- 

 tention of Mrs. Lewis, Barmouth would fail in its 

 principal attradion. — I was beyond meafure fur- 

 prized, on being introduced into the dining-roomj 

 to find, in this fecluded corner of the kingdom, 

 upwards of thirty perfons^ mofk of them of fortune 

 and fafhion. I found alfo^ on inquiry, that this 

 was by no means all the company at that time in 

 the town ; another hrgc and good building, which 

 Mrs. Lewis had in her o\vn hands as a lodging-.- 

 houfe, being alfo quite full. To be thus fuddenly 

 introduced, as it were, into the world, after my 



* Sketch of the liiilory of Merionethfhire, by Mr. Robert 

 Vaughan of Hengwrt. Camb. Reg. i. i§o. 



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