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was here, it appeared to be undergoing fome 

 confiderable alterations, under the infpe<5tion 

 of the judicious Mr, Wyatt* A method of 

 fencing grounds is ufed about the eftates of 

 Lord Penrhyn, which I never recolledt to 

 have obferved before. The fences are made 

 with pieces of blue flate, (of which his Jord- 

 fhip has fome exteniive quarries in the neigh- 

 bourhood) driven into the ground about a 

 foot diftant from each other, and interwoven 

 near the top with briars, or any kind of flex- 

 ible branches to hold them together. Whe- 

 ther thefe are of lefs expence than walls or 

 hedges I know not, but in point of ornament 

 J think they are fufficiently neat. 



Bangor,* the beautiful choir 9 though now 

 only a very fmall place, appears to have been 



formerly 



* Mr. Warner, a late tourift, whofe average rate 

 of walking of about twenty-five miles a day feems 

 to have rendered him liable to a thoufand errors, has, 

 others, miftaken this place for Bangor in 

 K 3 Flintfhire. 



