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D0I.GELLE3 



The Holme of the Groves, is a market town, in ^ 

 commercial view, of fome importance, feated in a 

 wide and fertile vale, between the rivers Arran 

 and Wnion, and furrounded on all fides by high, 

 and in many parts wooded, mountains^ 



A ftudent of Jefus College Oxford, who was a 

 native of Dolgelle, was one afternoon drinking wine 

 with fome of his college friends, when, in a ban^ 

 jtering ftile, they alked v/hat kind of a place it 

 was that had been honoured in giving him birth : 

 < — " There," fays he, flinging on the table a hand- 

 ful of nuts, and fetting up a cork in the middle, 

 " fuppofe each of thefe nuts a houfe, and that cork 

 the church, — you will have fome tolerable idea of 

 Dolgelle.'^ 



The analogy holds good, for the ftreets are as 

 irregular as it is poflible to imagine them. The 

 houfes in general are low, and ill built. The 

 churchy which is by much the neatell ftru61:ure in 

 ©r about the place, has in itfelf nothing that can 

 attraft particular attention. From various points 

 of view on the cutfide of the town, the painter 

 will, however, acknowledge, that it is not without 

 its beauty. 



We have a fmgular enigmatical account of Dol- 

 gelle, written by Fuller fomewhat more than a cen- 

 tury agOo 



