86 MONTGOMERY TO WELSH POOL. 



in Welfh manufaftures, which is carried on to a 

 great extent. It h principally reforted to as a 

 market for W> I'h flannels, which are manufactured 

 here, and in various adjacent parts of the country ; 

 from hence thefe are fent mto England, and prin- 

 cipally to Shrewibury and Liverpool. — The Severn 

 is navigable to a place called Pool Stake, within 

 a mile of Welfh Pool, although upwards of two 

 hundred miles from its mouth in the Briflol chan- 

 nel. 



The churchy apparently a modern ftrudure, is 

 Angularly fituated at the bottom of a hill, and fo 

 low, that the upper part of the church-vc^rd is nearly 

 on a level with its roof. This church has a chalice 

 which was prefented to it by Thomas Davies, fome 

 time governor-general of the Englilh colonies on the 

 weftern coaft of Africa. It is formed of pure gold 

 brought from Guinea, and is valued at about a 

 hundred and feventy pounds. Notwithftanding the 

 evidence of its infcription to the contrary, the fexton 

 informed me, with much affurance, that this chalice 

 had been given to the church by a tranfported felon, 

 who, from induftry and application during his banifn- 

 ment, had returned to his country the polfeffor of 

 confiderable wealth. — I was fomewhat furprized in 

 obferving in the choir a few branches of ivy that 

 had penetrated the roof, and were permitted to hang 

 entwined round each other in a cylindrical form, 

 to a length of more than eighteen feet. The neat- 

 nefs of the place was not in the leall injured by 



them. 



