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vales In front, with the little Llyn yr Avange, Bed' 

 ver^s Pool, at a diftance among them, formed on the 

 whole a pleafmg fcene. 



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Llanydloes. 



The entrance into Llanydloes, The Church of St. 

 Jdlos, is over a long wooden bridge acrofs the Severn. 

 This was fuch as not to prepoflefs me in favour of 

 the town. The ftreets are wide, but the houfes are 

 principally formed by means of timber frames, with 

 their intermediate fpaces clofed with laths and mud. 

 Thefe in general are very irregular, and I found a 

 greater fcarcity of good houfes in this place than in 

 any of its fize and confequence that I had yet vifited. 

 —The town-houfe is a wretched building, con- 

 ftrudled much in the manner of the dwelling-houfes. 

 The width of the ftreets of Llanydloes is (very 

 fmgularly) a great inconvenience, for the inhabit- 

 ants throughout the town, taking advantage of it, 

 accumulate all their afhes and filth in great heaps 

 before their doors. Thefe heaps are, indeed, fo 

 large, that in a hot day the exhalation of noxious 

 vapours from them, as I have experienced, muft be 

 an abominable nuifance to every perfon accuftomed 

 to cleanlinefs. 



The town is built in the form of a crofs, having 

 , the market-houfe nearly in the centre. — The church 

 is remarkable only for having fix arches, with co- 

 lumns furrounded by round pillars, ending in capi- 



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