ACCOUNT OF BOOKS. 



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own. It belongs to other persons, 

 and, perhaps, to otiicr times ; but 

 it is to be hoped, that tlic informa- 

 tion, rcSeftion-s, and opinions of 

 the embassador himself, may one 

 day be fully communicated to the 

 public, when the present objections 

 to it shall cease, and the moment 

 arrive, (which is probably not very 

 distant) that will enable us to act 

 Bpon the ideas of that nobleman's 

 capacious and enlightened miud, 

 and to prove to the world that the 

 late embassy, by shewing the cha- 

 racter and dignity of the British na- 

 tion in a new and splendid light, to 

 a court and people, in a great mea- 

 sure, ignorant of them before: how- 

 ever misrepresented by the jealousy 

 and envy of rivals, or imj)edrj by 

 the counteraftion of enemies, has 

 laid an excellent foundation for 

 great future advantages, and done 

 honour to the wisdom and foresight 

 of the statesman*, who planned the 

 measure, and directed its execu- 

 tion." 



That nothing might be wanting to 

 the reader's instruction and amuse- 

 ment, this large 4to. volume is adorned 

 and enriched by eight valuable draw- 

 ings chiclly from the elegant pencil of 

 JNfr. Alexander, the draughsman to 

 the embassy ; and the whole forms a 

 splendid proof of the advanced state 

 of the typography and graphic art 

 of this country. 



North Wales ; including its Scenery .^ 

 Antiquities, Customs, and some 

 SkvtcJies of its Naturcd Ilisfort/, 

 Sfc. Bi) the Rev. IViUiam iiinglei/, 

 A. M. fellow of the Linncan So- 



eicti/. Illustrated zcith a Map^ 

 Frontispiece, and Music, 2 lots. 

 Svo. 



Our anthor.commencing his route 

 at Chester, of which city he takes 

 due notice, proceeds by Holywell, 

 and the top of Pcn-maen-mawr into 

 that mountainous part of the coun- 

 try, denominated, by Mr. Pen- 

 nant, Snowdonia, comprehending 

 the greater part of Caernarvonshire, 

 and still. called the forest of Snow- 

 don. This part of the work is pe- 

 culiarly worthy the reader's atten- 

 tion, as it embraces a greater varie- 

 ty of new matter and description, 

 than any other of this class we are 

 acquainted with. 



The animated and pleasing ac- 

 count of the falls of Benglog is par- 

 ticularly interesting, and of Avhich 

 Mr. Bingley remarks, that " they 

 arc scarcely known in the adjacent 

 country, and have been unaccount- 

 ably omitted even in Air. Pcnnam's 

 Tour, although this gentleman ac- 

 curately dcscinbi's most of the sce- 

 nery around them.'' 



Mr. Bingley's station, for some 

 part of the time he parsed in the 

 northern counties of Wales, was at 

 Caernarvon ; from whence he made 

 various excursions into the neigh- 

 bourhood ; the fruits of which are 

 here detailed in a sprightly and inte- 

 resting manner. A long account of 

 the extravagancies of a variety of 

 the Methodists, popularly termed 

 Jumpers, occurs in this j)art of his 

 book. A remarkable anecdote is 

 here also given of the wrefchcdiiess 

 of the habitations of the lower or- 

 ders, which we shall transcribe. 



" I was taken to a cottage in the 



• The Lord Viscount Melville. 

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parish 



