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Here are two mines which join upon 

 each other. Of thefe Lord Uxbridge is 

 pofleffed of one half, and the other is be- 

 twixt the Reverend Edward Hughes of 

 Kinmael, near St. Afaph, and Thomas 

 Williams, Efq. of Llanedan, the member 

 for Great Marlow in Buckinghamfhire. 

 The latter proprietor holds his (hare upon 

 leafe from Lord Uxbridge, which expiring 

 foon, Mr. Hughes and his Lordmip will 

 then become the fole proprietors. 



There have been various conjectures as 

 to the etymology of Mynydd Parys, the 

 Parys mountain. Some fay that it was an- 

 tiently called Mynydd Pres, the brafs 

 A" mountain, others Mynydd Parhous, the 

 durable or inexbaujiible mountain -, and again, 

 pthers that it had it's name from Judge 

 Paris, who married a female of the family 

 of Penrhyn in Caernarvonfhire, An in- 

 telligent friend of mine, an inhabitant of 

 t|ie neighbourhood, feems to think, that 



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