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JL HE accounts that I had at different 

 times received of the ftupendous and pic- 

 turefque fcenery of fome of the counties of 

 North Wales, induced me, in the fummer 

 of 1798, to fpend three months that I had 

 to fpare from my College avocations, in 

 that romantic part of Great Britain. Thefe 

 I juftly conceived, would be fo amply 

 fufficient, that they would allow me time 

 leifurely to examine all the moft material 

 places. 



I can here truly fay, that every expec^ 

 tation I had been taught to raife, was more 

 than fulfilled. The traveller of tafte, who 

 is in fearch of the grander! fcenes that na- 

 ture has formed in thefe iflands ; the na- 

 turalift, and the antiquary, may all reft 

 affured that they will find here ample en- 

 tertainment in their refpe&ive purfuits. 



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