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CHAP. III. 



HOLYWELL. MANUFACTURES WENEFRED's 



WELL AND LEGEND MIRACLES MOSSES - 



REMARK OF DR. FULLER DEVOTEES BASING- 



WERK ABBEY AND CASTLE WAT'S DYKE. 



HPHE road betwixt Flint and Holywell 

 runs chiefly along the coaft. It lies 

 low, and is hemmed in on one fide by a 

 difmal falt-marfh, and on the other by hills, 

 which completely preclude every idea of a 

 diftant view of the country. I found it al- 

 together perfectly uninteresting. About 

 half-way I pafled through a little hamlet, 

 where the begrimed and footy faces of it's 

 inhabitants feemed to indicate their em- 

 ployment to be about fome of the many 

 E 2 lead 



