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" twigs, interwoven, (round at the bot- 

 " torn), and on that part next the water, 

 " covered with a horfe's hide -," but they 

 are now ufually covered with pitched can- 

 vas. They hold only a (ingle perfon, who 

 can row himfelf with incredible fwiftnefs 

 with a paddle in his right-hand, whilil 

 with the other he can manage a net. 



I croffed the Dovey into Montgome- 

 ryfhire,* and mortly afterwards arrived at 

 Machynlleth,-)- a neater and much more 

 regularly built town than moft in Wales. 

 The town-hall is a plain building, and the 

 church has a fault, common with many 

 of the Welm churches, in being white- 



* This country contains about 450,000 acres of 

 land, and 28,000 inhabitants. It is divided into 

 feven cantreds or hundreds, and contains 47 pariflies. 

 It has feven market towns, and is about 30 miles 

 from eaft to weft, and the fame from north to fouth. 



t Machynlleth fignifies the place near the river 

 Cynllaeth^ which was the antient name for the Dovey. 



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