3IO ESSAY ON THE WELSH LANGUAGE. 



within twenty miles of the metropolis, could get no anfwer from 

 feveral of his parilhioners, to a very plain queftion, viz. < Who 

 was Chrift ?* Can we find fuch ignorance in Wales,— the wilds 

 of Ireland, — or the Highlands of Scotland ?'*— See a ftatiftical 

 account of the parifh of Llanymynech, in Montgomeryfhire, by 

 the reverend Walter Davies of Meivod, inferted in the Cambrian 

 Regiftcr, i 2 So. 



