A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



perfons having cut them out with knives, 

 In this church the fervice is always pen- 

 farmed in the Welfh language ; the Eng- 

 lifh fervice being performed in a chapel 

 of eafe fituated in the north-weft corner of 

 the town walls, and formerly built for the 

 jife of the garrifon. 



At Caernarvon is a fmall but pretty good 

 harbour, ufed chiefly by the vefTels which 

 ,trade there for flates, of which many thou- 

 fands are exported every year to different 

 parts of the kingdom. Thefe flates are 

 brought from the mountains of Llanberis, a 

 village ten miles diftant. The quarries arc 

 generally high up arnongft the rocks, and 

 the workmen, in conveying them down 

 from thence, are obliged, as well as one 

 horfe before, to have another behind the 

 carts, to prevent the whole, in fome of the 

 dangerous fteeps in which thefe mountains 

 abound, from being darned headlong to the 

 Bottom, which muft fometimes inevitably 

 L 3 be 



