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wade lands in Montgomeryfliire, and pays well for 

 the expence of improvement. The commons in this 

 county are in townihips, and the landmarks are well 

 known. The Ihepherds occafionally pay them a 

 vifit to prevent the animals from rambling, or going 

 beyond their limits, which indeed very feldom hap- 

 pens, except in the fpring months, when the mares 

 are in feafon ; when it is abfolutely impoffible to 

 keep them within their own bounds, and is therefore 

 very rarely attempted ; but fo foon as that is over, 

 they come back to the grounds on which they ufed to 

 pafturc, as if by inftinft. The ponies live conftantly 

 on the mountains, until they are old enough for the 

 market, and a number of wedders alfo winter there, 

 (which are looked after by fome cottagers which 

 refide on the borders of the commons) neither of 

 which are allowed any other food than what they 

 can Gjji^ther, and confequently many ftarvc in hard 

 winters. 



Survey of Merionethshirk, p. lo. 



BY MR. GEORGE KAY. 



The wade lands in Merionethfliire are of very con- 

 fiderable extent, and by embanking and draining in 

 fome places, and by draining alone in others, might 

 be converted into fine pafture, or hay lands; the 



precarioufnefs 



