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commerce on a large fcale) vending their 

 manufactures through the means of factors, 

 who run away with many of the advantages 

 which the natives might enjoy; yet this 

 gentleman was informed, that a few years 

 prior to the publication of his tour,* forty 

 thoufand pounds-worth of flannels, and ten 

 thoufand pounds-worth of (lockings, had 

 been exported from hence in the courfe of 

 a year. The number of (hips at prefent 

 belonging to this port, is about a hundred. 

 The population of the place is eftimated at 

 fixteen hundred. 



Not far from Barmouth, the river 

 Mawddach divides into two arms, and 

 forms a fmall ifland, called Ynys y Brawd, 

 or the Friar s I/land. On the top of the 

 rock, called Dinas Gortin, was formerly 

 a military trench or fence.-j* 



* In the year 1781. 



t Vaughan's Sketch of the Hiftory of Merioneth- 

 fliire, Camb. Reg, I. 190. 



F f 3 I left 



