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breeding, they had been expressed, adopted, or 

 waived, as appeared most suitable to the general 

 taste. The punctuality of every body had been 

 another source of satisfaction ; as well as the 

 mutual pains to share with each other every 

 little discovery ; and she placed above all, the 

 disposition to be pleased. *< Even here," she 

 added, " where to most people the ennui of such 

 a place as Holyhead is only varied by dwelling 

 on the expected miseries of a voyage, the same 

 happy habits will produce the same results ; out 

 of doors you will, I am sure, find sufficient 

 objects of interest, and within, we can double 

 the pleasure of our journey by recalling the 

 principal occurrences; Bertha, indeed, will have 

 the additional resource of her journal, the scrib- 

 bling of which has been her daily, and I fear, her 

 nightly occupation for the past twelvemonth." 



We soon after walked to the beautiful new 

 pier and light-house, which have both rendered 

 the harbour so much more safe and convenient 

 than it was formerly ; and then my uncle, Went- 

 worth, and Frederick, proposed going to the 

 Stack light-house, on the other side of Holy- 

 head Island. Caroline and I begged very hard 

 to be allowed to accompany them, and at last 

 my uncle consented, though he thought the 

 walk would be too fatiguing for us. 



We scrambled up the high bare mountain, 

 which rises behind the town ; and certainly no 



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