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was occupied in doing fuch good as his 

 circumftances would afford to his fellow 

 creatures. 



I venerate the man whofe heart is warm, 

 Whofe hands are pure, whofe dodrine and whofe 



life 



Coincident, exhibit lucid proof 

 That he is honeft in the facred caufe. 

 To fuch I render more than mere refpeft, 

 Whofe alions fay that they refpedl themfelves. 



The vale of Llanberis was formerly al- 

 moft covered with wood, but of this, there 

 is at prefent, but little left, except a few 

 faplings from the old roots, which only 

 ferve to remind us of the greater want of 

 the reft. Within the memory of perfons 

 now living, there were great woods of oak 

 in different places about thefe mountains,, 

 Leland,* who wrote in the reign of Henry 



* Itin. V. 42, 



VIII, 



