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that it is really curious for a ftranger to 

 wind up along the narrow paths amongft 

 the houfes, where, on one fide, he may, 

 if he pleafe, enter the door of a dwelling, 

 or on the other, look down the chimney 

 of the neighbourhood in front. The lower 

 part of the town is almoft choaked up with 

 fand, which fills every pafTage, and in wet 

 weather, it is extremely dirty and unplea- 

 fant. The houfes are the inoft irregular 

 poffible in fhort, it appears to be fuch 

 a place as nothing but the pleafures of 

 fociety can render at all comfortable. 



It is frequented during the fummer fea- 

 fon by many genteel families from Wales, 

 and the weft of England, as a fea bathing 

 place. Mr. Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, 

 in his Sketch of the Hiftory of Merioneth - 

 fhire,* feems to afcribe it's origin to per- 

 fons frequenting the banks of the Mawd- 



* Camb. Reglften I. 190. 

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