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fervice, in not permitting it to lay claim 

 entirely to originality : but in return for 

 this, I have, I believe, (except in the firft 

 and laft chapters of the Tour] always in- 

 ferted marks of reference to the authors 

 from whence my information is extracted. 

 To Mr. Pennant's accurate and learned 

 work on this country, I have in various 

 inflances, as will be hereafter feen, been 

 much indebted. 



It may indeed, and not improperly, be 

 afked, what need there was for any other 

 account, when one fo accurate as the 

 above was already extant ? In anfwer to 

 this, I have to obferve, that the pre- 

 fent is more commodious for carriage : 

 the former being in two volumes quarto, is 

 extremely heavy and inconvenient for per- 

 fons to carry along with them. Mr. Pen- 

 nant has taken no general rout. He be- 

 gins near his own houfe in Flintfhire, pro- 

 ceeds through that county, part of Che/hire, 

 Shropfhire, and Denbighfhire, and returns 



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