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 purple, and fcra already brown: tlic cot- puMic walk; it is conti lined over the 

 iHgos and their iiihabitauls piiitook. of city gates, and the view from hence 

 the poverty of the soil. We pursued down to the Smsy streets is siiijiuiar. 

 our way, environed by rooky mountains, The principal streets have two rows of 

 one of which was entireled by rows of shops on each side; tlie lower ones pro- 

 stone like walls. All was wild and jeeting from the houses, and tlie upper 

 dreary, and we could not conjecture, beiuu on the first floor. The fiat roofs 

 round or over, which of the mountains of the former are tlie gallery which leads, 

 our road must lie ; when, at a sudden to the latter. These galierics are se- 

 turn, I saw at a distance, and far below cured with balustrades, and commnni- 



mc, a level country, with inclosed fields. 

 Though glad of such a prospect for my 

 lodging, I looked with regret on the 

 coiuitry I was leaving behind. One 

 small scene of enchantment remained, — 

 the village of Llauverras, with a river, a 

 bridg-e, and a mill, surrotmded by moun- 

 tains and hanging woods; and a long 

 descent brought us to the town of Mold, 

 in Flintshire, situated on a small hill in 

 tiie flat country we had seen from the 

 mountains, and, like Denbigh and St. 



cafe with tlie street below by (lights of 

 stej'.s, at short I'istances. It appeared to 

 me that Chester might contain as many 

 shops as its inhabitants required, with- 

 out placing them upon each otiicr'a 

 slioulders. 



The most impressive object in Cliester 

 is the cat'iedral, which is massive and 

 grand; we went in, not at the principal 

 entrance, but at a smaller one, and found 

 ourselves in a dirty, dark, and shabby 

 church ; tlie communion table covered 



Asaph, fetching all its water from the with a carpel that looked as if it had 



jjlain below. been seven yejirs trodden under foot, at 



The ancient and modern limits of En- an inn: I exclaimed, "What a cathc- 



glaiid and Wales appear to me altogether dral!" but a moment's rcfiection coii- 



arbitrary ; they were probably fixed by vinced uje that this vvas not all so fiao 



the sword. I'he ancient dyke is about an edifice must coalain. We went oat, 



a mile and a lialf beAond Mold; the in search of an(jliier entraace, and found- 



stone that now marks the boundaiies is tfiat tiie precept, in holy writ, which en- 



about a mile and a half before we reach joins us to "enter in at the straight 



Chester, but the natural barrier is Mold gate" did not extend to Chester catlic- 



Alounlain. 



Our entrance into England was along 

 the worst road that ever England pre- 

 sented to my view : it was of soft sandy 

 rook, that innumerable carts had worn 

 into lioles as large as their own bodies. 

 W^e saw twenty of these carts at once, 

 with each of tiie men driving, leading, 

 pushing, and exerting every eft'ort of 

 cartmanship, to avoid the holes. Had a 

 wheel gotten into one of thein, praj ing 

 to Hercules, as the csrmau did of old, 

 Bi- putting his shoulder to it, as that sa- 



dral; (he "wide ga(c'' brought us into, 

 a ao!>le church, divided i:!(o three aisles 

 by two rows of pillars. The oraameutS' 

 of (he Ciieir are extremely beautiful, ami 

 the bishop's throne, an aucictU stone 

 pulpit, adorned with arches, pinnacles, 

 and small statues of tlie kings and queens 

 of Mercia, is particularly curious. 



In answer to my inquiries respecting 

 the dairies of Cheshire, I was inlbrmed 

 that they generally consist of from thirty 

 to sixty cows, and (hat there area few of 

 fourscore. A (iairy of fifty cows will 



gacious god advised, vvould have been make two cheeses a day, of fiom (i(ty ta 



t'lpially fruitless. 



Chester is still surrounded by a waH< 

 it is entire, and is one mile, three quar- 

 ters, one hundred and one yards, in cir- 

 Gumferencc. The top of the wall is a 



sixty poimds weight each. Farms ar« 

 let liom thirty shillings to (liree |)ounds an 

 acre, and the candidates for them are so 

 numerous, that they are commonly lc( 

 by aueiion. 



CORNUCOPIA. 



PHAGF.SIA. 



TITE fjastronomy of Archestratiis, 

 a poem on good eating, was trans- 

 lated into Latin by Mnnius, with the 

 title S'iiagesia. No doubt it was a me- 

 trical art of cookery, adapt('d to help a 

 poet to bis dinner, whether he had tu 

 t>iiy it, tu cook it, or to viiiit Tor it. 



POLITICAL POWER. 



The consent of mankiijd, united in 

 society, is (he iiiimdaiioii of jjower. Ho 

 who oidy establishes himself by f()r(-c 

 can only subsist by force, whii'li can 

 never confer tli<^ (ili(; of legitimale, ami 

 tlic peoi)le picfxrve alwajs the rigid t() 

 proles 



