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Flint * is a market town, fmall, irregu- 

 larly built, and by no means pleafant. It 

 has once been furrounded by a ditch and 

 ramparts, but thefe are now nearly de- 

 ftroyed. Being fituated near the fea, it is 

 reforted to by a few from the neighbour- 

 ing country as a bathing place ; but the 

 marfhy coaft which extends to the edge of 

 the water, and over which the fea fre- 

 quently flows, mufl render this extremely 

 difagreeable. The church, or rather cha- 

 pel, for it is nothing more than a chapel of 

 eafe to Northop, is a dirty, ill-looking 

 building, with a boarded turret. From this 

 place there are packets which fet fail every 

 tide for Chefter and Park-Gate. This is 



* Mr. Pennant in his Tour, I. 43, conjectures that 

 this place was the fame with what was antiently called 

 Colful or Colejhill; and the chapel to have been (before 

 it was rebuilt) that granted by David ap Lewelyn to 

 the Abbey of Bafmgwerk, and called Capflla de Col- 

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