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the fine ruins of its caflle formed a very interefling 

 addition to the profpecl. — The road is fo much 

 elevated immediately above the town, as to afford 

 the traveller a bird's eye view into almofl every 

 ftreet. 



Montgomery, 



From the neatnefs of its houfes, feemed to me to 

 be inhabited principally by perfons of fmali fortune, 

 who had fettled here to lead a Hfe of retirement. 

 It is clean, and well built ; and feems capable of 

 affording the comforts and conveniences, without 

 any of the buftle and noife of a large town. All the 

 adjacent country is decorated \^ith the mofl lively 

 and luxuriant fcenery. 



The church is an elegant cruciform ftrufture, 

 dedicated to St. Nicholas, and contains an ancient 

 monument, to the memory of Richard Herbert, efq. 

 the fi^ther of the very celebrated lord Herbert of 

 Chirbury, and his lady. The two figures are re- 

 cumbent, under v/hat has once been a magnificent 

 and much ornamented canopy. In an adjacent cor- 

 ner of the church, I obferved a large coUeftion of 

 legs, arms, heads, and trunks of other monumental 

 figures, but all of them fo much Ihattered, that I 

 could make nothing out of them. On the grave- 

 ftones in the church-yard I remarked more epitaphs 

 than I had ufually feen together before. Among 

 fuch a number, many were of courfe ridiculous. 



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