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body. On being fqueezed they will eje& 

 them, and they often carl them fponta- 

 neoufly in the fand of the ftream. There 

 have been fometimes fo many as fixteen 

 taken in one mell. Pearls got here have 

 fold for four guineas each, and one for ten, 

 which was afterwards purchafed by Lady 

 Glenlealy, who put it into a necklace, and 

 refufed eighty pounds for it from the Du- 

 chefs of Ormond. A notion prevails that 

 Sir Richard Wynne, of Gwydir, chamber- 

 lain to Catherine Queen of Charles II. pre- 

 fented her majefty with a pearl taken in 

 this river, which is to this day honoured 

 with a place in the regal crown.* 



A more beautiful or more pidturefque 

 town can fcarcely be found than Conwy.-j- 



The 



* Philofophical Tranfaclions abridged, II. 831. 

 Pennant's Zoology, IV. 80. 



t It has been conj e&ured by many, that this pre- 

 fent Conwy was the Conovium of the Romans ; this, 

 however, appears to have been without any founda- 

 tion, 



