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towns of Chefter and Shrewfbury, intend- 

 ing to confine my obfervatipns entirely to 

 Wales : but afterwards, upon confidering 

 the matter, thefe places feemed fo materi- 

 ally connected with the others, that rather 

 than omit them, I determined to add to 

 my own the moft ufeful obfervations of 

 Mr. Pennant and Dr. Aikinj* and fince 

 the references for thefe would, if inferted, 

 have occured very often, I thought it better 

 to leave them out. 



In the Htftory of the Bards, I have been 

 much indebted to feveral parts of Mr. 

 Jones's excellent work, entitled " Mufical 

 ? and Poetical Relics of the WelOi Bards." 

 In the more antient part of the hiftory, I 

 have taken the liberty to prefer the autho- 

 rities of the Roman writers to that of 

 Mr. William Owen, who has lately, in 

 the introduction to his tranflation of the 



* In his Hiftory of the Country round Manchefter. 



elegies 



