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CHAP. XIV. 



RuABOK TO Wrexham. 



Erddig.~^Wrexham. — Church and Monuments. — Anecdote of EUha 

 Tale,'— Wrexham Fair, — Trade and ManufaS cries, 



I LEFT Ruabon, and proceeded on my journey 

 towards Wrexham. In order to pafs through the 

 grounds ofEnidig, belonging to Philip Yorke, efq.* 

 I left the carriage-road, and went along a foot-path, 

 over the meadows on the right. I obferved con- 

 fiderable tafte difplayed at Erddig, but all the efforts 

 of art are fo infinitely inferior to the majeflic opera- 

 jtions of nature, which I had lately feen in fo much 

 variety, that I cannot fay I derived much pleafure 

 from thefe grounds. — ^Watt's Dyke runs through 

 them ; and not far diftant is the fragment of a wall, 

 conjcdtured to have been part of a Roman fort. 



Wrexham 



Is a populous market town, and of fuch fize and 

 confequence as to have obtained the appellation of 

 the metropolis of North Wales. The ftreets and 



* The author of a valuable hlflory of the Five Royal Tribes 

 of North Wales. 



buildings 



