1S16.] Miss Ihdton's Tour through North IVaks. Ill 



of which his chief excellence be parallel ; and that which it is to luni 

 no way at all may be placed in any di- 

 rection ; and, when the first-mentioned 

 wheel is turned any way by this fourth- 

 mentioned wheel, it will produce the de- 

 sired ell'ect; namely, the (irst-mentioned 

 wheel will turn the second in the same 

 direction with itself, the third in tiie con- 

 trary direction, and tire fourth it will 

 turn noway at all. Recluse, 



contrivin^ 



lay, was a lute fabricated by him with 

 so much art, tiiat when he himself 

 touched it with a master's hand, ho drew 

 from the chords, at his pleasure, con- 

 tinued and deep sounds, such as issue 

 from the pipes of an organ. It was, in- 

 deed, he adds, a most sweet harmony. 

 He had, in his time, the reputation of 

 much learning, and of an ex(iuisi(e 



taste; lie is, ho^\ ever, generally '^ut lit- 

 tle known, wiiich may probably arise 

 from the great celebrity of the father ha- 

 ving caused the merits of the son either 

 to be forgotten, or regarded with indif- 

 ference. In the essays on tiie natural 

 ■experiments made in the academy of 

 Cimcnto, it is said that, in the opini(jn of 

 Galileo his father, he was the first, in the 

 year 1649, to apply the pendulum to 

 clocks; although this invention is as- 

 cribed by '\'iviani to Cristiano Ugcnio. 

 Beside the skill which this Yincenzo the 



Jutie 5, 1816. 



For the Movtldy Magazine. 

 LETTERS written during a second tour 



in NORTH WALES; by MISS HUTTON, 

 o/'flUNNETT's-HlLL, ILear BIRMINGHAM, 



LETTER XI. 



Caernarvon ; Sept. 13. 

 My dear Brotiier, 



CAERNARVON, though it seem ta 

 a stranger half Welsh and half 

 English, is not so : there are few Englisli- 

 men reside in it, and still fewer women, 

 jounser displayed in mechanics, and in All the trades-people, ail the poor i>eo- 

 ntusic more especially, he was a poet of pl*?> a" the sailors, aic Welsh ; many of 

 an a^^reeable fancy,' and of no mean Hie gentry are Irish. 1 miderstand that 

 ability, as appears by his mannscri])t it is common lor tiie Irish to live too fast 

 compositions presei-ved in the library of «» their own country, and to c«me here 

 the Riccardi family. Independenlly of back agahi to live. They are, however, 

 their general merits, they have that of ol' s^ch a social and convivial turn, that 

 being dictated in the pure Tuscan when a number of them meet, they dine, 

 idiom, without partaking of the defects drink, andj.lay, and are obliged to quit 

 of the unpropitious age in which they Caernarvon for tlie same reason that they 

 were w ritten. In the catalogue of the came to it. 



manuscripts belonging to lire Venetian 'f l>e poor people live in wre<ched 

 family of Neri, published by the Abbatc Jiuts. Ju Hie suburbs, though they join 

 Morelli, it is said that the celebrated each other, and form a street. 'I'liey 

 Prophecies of Merlin were rendered into "ilcn contain but (uie room, which holds 

 the 'I'uscan dialect, in iambick verse, by the family night and day. The tloor is 

 this our poet, of whom so little is at pre- unpaycd, or rudely laid with stones, and 

 scut known. the light is admitted by one sorry win- 



B dow, bnt the door is always open ; and 



To the Editor of tUe Monthly Magazhu. the mother and grandmother are fre- 

 SIR, ' quently seen knitting and spinning, sur- 



LE.'s answer to Inquirer being no rounded by a brood of tlie finest rosy 

 . solution of the paradox stated in children that imagination can conceive 

 your Magazine for I'ebruary, to me or —to say nothing of the pigs, for they are 

 any of yotir readers who cannot refer to 'Joi"t tenants, as well as free of the 

 Ferguson, 1 present you with a literal eity 



explanation, though not altogether so 

 tncchanieal as I hoped to ha\e seen in 

 your Magazine for this month, and 

 which I shall be happy to find suppressed 

 for a better. Supjiose the teeth of the 

 wheel, which are to take into the teeth 

 of three other wheel ;, to bo on its side ; 

 let the wheel it is to turn in the same 

 direction with itself, be placed within 

 4l» cireuinlerencc, having its teeth on 

 tlie edge ; that whicli it is (otuiii in the 



I am sorry that I must confine ray 

 good opinion of the Welsh to tliose who 

 have had little intercourse with the 

 English. Some years ago a iew pei"- 

 sons oi taste and curiosity visited the 

 noble scenery of U'alcs ; they found the 

 inhabitants simple and honest, the accom- 

 modations very ])oor, and the roads al- 

 most impracticable. I'rom the report 

 of these tourists, others have lollowed ; 

 they have come in swarms, and the con- 



contrary diiccliou be placed outside its sequence has been, that mo >ey is iiitro- 

 circiimCerence, lla^ ing its teeth also on dnced, roads arc improved, rents are 

 tte edge ; and let tlie iixles of these three iaj*cd, and Iho people arc rapacious. 



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