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" themfelves with admiring, with devout 

 " gratitude, what they deem the opera* 

 " tions of the fpirit." Their exertions are 

 fo great at thefe times, that the hardeft la- 

 bour they could be put to, would not fo 

 much wafte their animal fpirits, or weary 

 their limbs, as two hours fpent in this reli- 

 gious fury. Were their meetings feven 

 times a week, inflead of once or twice, I 

 am confident that the ftrongeft conftitution 

 could bear it but a very ihort time. 



Befides thefe they have their general 

 meetings, which are held once or twice in 

 a year, at Caernarvon, Pwllheli, and other 

 places in rotation. At thefe they fome- 

 times alTemble fo many as five or fix thou- 

 fand people. They hold their general 

 meeting at Caernarvon in the open air upon 

 the green, near the cattle; and not content- 

 ed with their enthufiaftic extravagancies 

 upon the fpot, many of the people, from 



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