40 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



to Henry's encampment at Saltney, a few 

 miles diftant.* 



When I arrived at the village of Northcp, 

 I turned on the right, out of the ufual road 

 from Chefter to Holywell, and went towards 

 Flint. About two miles from this place, 

 and from the flope of an hill, at the bottom 

 of which ftands the town, the fcenery open- 

 ed in a mofl pleafing manner. It was high 

 water ; and the Eftuary of the Dee, which 

 runs up towards Chefter, enlivened by the 

 vefiels " lightly floating on it's furface," 

 the towns of Park-Gate, and fome others on 

 the oppofite more, appeared to peculiar ad- 

 vantage. At the ebb of the tide this wide 

 arm of the fea dwindles into a narrow 

 ftream, inclofed on each lide by long and 

 dreary banks of fand. 



* Lyttleton's Hiftory of Henry II. vol. II, p. 72, 

 73- 



Flint 



