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much better if it was quite firm. So many 

 have tried the experiment, that the ftone is 

 now become quite Ibofe. We, for frolic's 

 fake, attempted it, but, except that ftone, 

 we found the whole bridge as firm as a 

 rock. 



The town of Llanrwft is finely fituated 

 on the eaftern bank of the Conwy, but 

 has in itfelf nothing to recommend it to 

 notice. The ftreets are narrow, and the 

 houfes irregular. The church is dedicated 

 to St. Ryftyd, or Reftitutus, who was a 

 Bifhop of London about 360 -, and adjoin- 

 ing upon it, is a chapel, built in 1633, by 

 Sir Richard Wynne, from a defign of Inigo 

 Jones. The church is a plain ill-looking 

 ftru&ure, but the chapel is neat and well 

 built. 



Againft the wall, at the weft end of the 

 latter, are five brafles, chiefly remarkable 

 for the excellence of their execution, each, 

 befides an infcription, containing a portrait 



of 



