RUTHIN TO LLANGOLLEN. I73' 



fcription, which will fufficiently explain the nature 

 of the undertaking : 



The Noblity and Gentry of 



the adjacent counties 



having \inited, their efforts with 



the great commercial intereft of this country* 



In creating an intercourfe and union, between 



England and North Wales, 



by a navigable communication of the three rivers, 



Severn, Dee, and Merfey, 



for the mutual benefit of agriculture and trade, 



caufcd the firft ftone of this aqueduA of 



Pont Cyfyllty, 



to be laid, on the 25th day of July, MDCCXcr. 



when Richard Middleton of Chirk, Efquire, m.p. 



one of the original patrons of the 



EUefmere Canal, 



was Lord of this manor, 



and in the reign of our fovereign 



GEORGE THE THIRD, 



when the equity of the laws and 



the fecurity of property, 



promoted the general v/elfare of the nation, 



while the arts and fciences flourilhed 



by his patronage, and 



the condudl of civil life, was improved 



by his example. 



I returned to Llangollen by the Ofweflry road 

 on the fouth fide of the river. This is confiderably 

 elevated above the bottom of the vale, and from 

 hence all the furroundlng objeds are feen to great 

 advantage. From thefe fteep banks the Dee's tranf- 

 parent fiream is feen to wind in elegant curves, along 

 5 the 



