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betwixt Llyn Ogwen and Nant Frangon, 

 where it paffes over a rock fo fmall, that 

 it might, without any very great expence, 

 be cut, through. 



By this road, the diftance betwixt Shrewf- 

 bury and Bangor Ferry will be fhortened 

 near twenty miles, and a coach would be 

 able to run it in almoft five hours lefs time 

 than it does at prefent by Conwy. The 

 mail, inftead of arriving at Holyhead at fix 

 o'clock in the evening, would be there by 

 one o'clock at noon, and about every fe- 

 cond week by faving a tide, would arrive 

 in Dublin twelve hours fooner than it does 

 now. 



Befides thefe great advantages arifing from 

 this new road, the tourift will be able to tra- 

 verfe thefe, the mod mountainous and ro- 

 mantic parts of North Wales, even lolling 

 at eafe in his carriage. And by this road 

 the provoking delays and intolerable ex- 

 actions at Conwy ferry, will be entirely 

 avoided. 



When 



