12 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



eavated to the depth of about eight feet 

 out of the earth. On a level with them 

 are low fhops and warehoufes ; whilft above 

 and on a level with the kitchens and court- 

 yards are galleries, or Rows as they are 

 called, running along the fronts of the 

 houfes, and affording a covered walk for 

 foot pafTengers.* Over thefe are the higher 

 ftories of the houfes. Thefe rows are dif- 

 agreeably clofe and often very dirty -, and 

 a perfon is under the neceffity of afcending 

 and defcending wherever a lane crofles the 

 ftreet. The four large ftreets are for the 

 moft part of a good breadth, but upon the 



* Thefe rows appear to have been the fame with 

 the antient veflibuies, and to have been a form of 

 building preferved from the time that the city was 

 poflefled by the Romans. They were built before 

 the doors, midway between the ftreets and the 

 Tioufcs \ and were the places where dependants 

 waited for the coming out of their patrons. Pen 

 want's Tour, I. 113. 



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