A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 43* 



trade for yarn, which being manufactured 

 into flannels, is fent to Welfli Pool for 

 fale. Within the church are fix arches, 

 whofe columns are furrounded with round 

 pillars, ending in capitals of palm leaves. 

 Thefe, as the inhabitants aflert, were 

 brought from Cwm Hir abbey, in Rad- 

 norfhire. A date on the roof intimates 

 that it was erected in the year 1542. 



The country all the way from Llanyd- 

 loes to Newtown, feemed plainly to indi- 

 cate an approach towards England, the 

 road winding along a vale much flatter and 

 more highly cultivated than any in the 

 interior of Wales. Here were feveral 

 fields, both of wheat and rye, two fpecies 

 of corn feldom grown in very mountainous 

 countries, for the winds and florms are 

 there fo powerful as to make the corn out 

 of the ears fometime before it can ripen. 

 I now wandered 



On the gentle Severn's fedgy bank. 



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