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material inconvenience ; they are all, it is true, well 

 calculated for feeing, but the articulation of the 

 minifler, which ought to be the principal object 

 attended to, is, m buildings of this nature, generally 

 dellroyed by the reverberation of found. — ^I fhall 

 add- a fimple memorandum, which I found in the 

 journal of an artift, whofe judgment even the archi- 

 tect of this church would fcarcely choofe to queftion: 

 " In Shrewfbury there are five churches, one of 

 which, St. Chad's, is new, and, if the expreflion may 

 be ufed, is a complete piciure of deformity,** 



The Quarry. 



From this building I defcended immediately to 

 the Quarry, a mod delightful walk, along an avenue 

 of limes, Vvhich led me to the Severn, and then a 

 confiderable diftance each wny along its bank. The 

 trees are large and old, and even in the hotteft days 

 of fummer afford a flieltered and pleafant retreat. 

 The ground is the property of the corporation ; the 

 part appropriated to paflurage is let to the in- 

 habitants, and the profits are diftributed among the 

 burgefles. 



'TheH6^use of Industry 



Is the fine brick building which is feen frorii hence 



on the oppofite tofty bank of the Severn. I crolTed 



the river by the ferry with one of the directors, and 



was fhewn every thing within it that I v/as defirous 



pf feeing. ' ' * 



ThQ 



