xii PREFACE; 



a depth of knowledge that does not fall 

 to every man's lot. He was the firft who 

 made the tafte for home travels fo prevalent 

 in this country j and it would be uncandid 

 not to declare, that this gentlemen has 

 given us fome of the earlieft defcriptions 

 that are worth preferving. In his tour in 

 North Wales, from being a native of the 

 country, and having accefs to all the prin- 

 cipal libraries there, he poflefTed many 

 advantages that in his other journies he 

 did not, which of courfe mufl tend to 

 render this his moft correct work. 



In the prefent volumes, from my being 

 refident in Cambridge, and having had 

 accefs to feveral of the libraries there, I 

 may perhaps be permitted to flatter myfelf 

 that I have been able to infert fome curious 

 information, and many hiftorical facts, which 

 even Mr. Pennant has omitted. 



When I made the journey, I very 

 ftrangely took but fhort defcriptions of the 



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