27* A TOUR ROUN 7 t> NORTH WALES. 



mountainous and rocky, and inhabited by 

 various fpecies of fca fowl that breed upon 

 the fleeps, which, towards the fea, are in 

 many places very high. 



A number of crofs-roads, fufficiently 

 difagreeable, brought me from Holyhead 

 to Amlwch, near the lake,* a fmall market 

 town, about a mile from which is Mynydd 

 Parys, the Parys Mountain, that inex- 

 hauftible mine of copper, a mine of wealth 

 to all concerned in it. It was on Saturday, 

 the market day, when I got to Amlwch, 

 and the inn was crowded with miners, 

 who were come to receive their pay and 

 purchafe victuals for the week, fo that it was 

 with fome difficulty I could get any thing 

 to eat. This was not owing to any in- 

 civility of the perfons at the inn, but 



* This loch or lake, from which the town takes 

 it's name, was fituated betwixt the church and the 

 port; but being drained, it was converted into a corn 

 field, in which capacity it yet remains. 



merely 



