OP THE WELSH, 27? 



'* Before the difcovery of Efgair y Mwyn mincy 

 thefe little people, as we call them here, worked hard 

 there day and night ; and there are abundance of 

 honeft, fober people, who have heard them, and 

 fome perfons who have no notion of them or of 

 mines either ; but after the difcovery of the great 

 ore they were heard no more. 



" When I began to work at Lltuyn Llwyd, they 

 worked fo frefh there for a confiderable time, that 

 they frightened fome young workmen out of the 

 work. This was when we were driving levels, and 

 before we had got any ore ; but when we came to 

 the ore, they then gave over, and I beard no more 

 talk of them. 



*^* Our old miners are no more concerned at 

 hearing them blaji'mg, boring holes, landing deads, 

 kc. than if they were fome of their own people ; 

 and a fmgle miner will flay in the work, in the dead 

 of the night, without any man near him, and never 

 think of any fear, or of any harm they will do him. 

 The miners have a notion that the knockers are of 

 their own tribe and profellion, and are a harmlefs 

 people who mean well. Three or four miners toge- 

 ther fhali hear them fometimes, but if the miners 

 flop to take notice of them, the knockers will alfo- 

 ftop ; but, let the miners go on at their own work, 

 fuppofe it is boring, the k?iockers will at the fame time 

 go on as brills as can be in landing, blajilng, or 

 beating down the looj'e ; and they are always heard a 

 little diilance from them before they come to the ore. 



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