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rather referved and timid, probably from 

 the unaccuftomed fight of ftrangers amongft 

 them. None of them know any other 

 language than that of their country ', and 

 hemmed in as they are, with mountain 

 barriers, I mould fuppofe, that three~ 

 fourths of them were never half a dozen 

 miles from home. The village itfelf is 

 compofed of little elfe than fmall cottages, 

 there being only one houfe of a tolerable fize 

 that I could obferve in the place. 



We left this place, and came into the 

 road we had left near Pont-y-Pair, a fin- 

 gular bridge of five arches, not far from 

 Bettws y Coed, the ftation in the wood. 

 This bridge, whofe arches are very lofty, 

 is built over the river Llugwy, and both 

 above and below it the bed is covered with 

 fuch ftrange mafTes of rock, that when 

 there is much water in the river it mufl 

 exhibit a mod pleafing fcene. 



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