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but the inhabitants feemed very clean and 

 decent people. 



The church of Llanberis, which is der 

 dicated to St. Peris, a cardinal, miflioned 

 from Rome as a Legate to this illand, who 

 is faid to have fettled and died at this 

 place, is, without exception, the moil ill- 

 looking place of wormip I ever beheld. 

 The firft time I vifited the village, I ab- 

 folutely miftook it for an antient cottage, 

 for even the bell turret was fo overgrown 

 with ivy as to bear as much the appearance 

 of a weather-beaten chimney as any thing 

 elfe, and the long grafs in the church yard 

 completely hid the few grave flones therein 

 from the view. I thought it indeed a cot- 

 tage larger than the reft, and it was fome- 

 time before I could reconcile to myfelf 

 that it was a church. Here is yet to be 

 feen the Well of the Saint, inclofed within 

 a fquare wall, but I met with no fybil, 

 who, as Mr. Pennant relates, could divine 

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