IS* A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



At one table was feated the family of the 

 houfe, conlifting of the hoft, his wife, and 

 their fon and daughter, eating their bread 

 and milk, the common food of the la- 

 bouring people here j a large overgrown 

 old fow making a noife, neither, very low 

 nor very mufical, whilft ihe was devour- 

 ing her dinner from a pail placed for her 

 by the daughter, was in one corner, and I 

 was eating my bread and butter, with an 

 appetite fteeled again ft niceties by the 

 keennefs of the mountain air, at a table, 

 covered with a dirty napkin, in the other 

 corner. This fcene, however, induced 

 me ever afterwards, in my excurfions to 

 this place, to bring with me refremments 

 from Caernarvon, and enjoy my dinner in 

 quiet in the open air. But excepting in 

 this fingle inftance, I did not find the 

 houfe worfe than I had any reafon to ex- 

 pect in fuch a place as this. The accom- 

 modations in the clerk's houfe are poor, 



but 



