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fake of this commerce.* The Severn 

 is navigable to within three quarters of 

 a mile of the town, though upwards of 

 two hundred miles from it's mouth in the 

 Briflol channel. The church, apparently 

 a modern building, is fingularly fituated 

 at the bottom of a hill, and fo low that 

 the upper part of the churchyard is 

 nearly on a level with it's roof. I was 

 fomewhat furprized at obferving a few 

 branches of Ivy that had penetrated 

 through the roof of the choir and were 

 permitted to hang entwined around each 

 other, in a cylindrical form, upwards of 

 eighteen feet long. Since the neatnefs 

 of the place is not affecled by them, their 

 fingularity has no doubt been the caufe 

 of their prefervation. 



* Mr. Pennant, in his Tour through Wales, Vol. II. p. 

 397. Says, that there are brought annually to Welfti Pool 

 between 7 and 800,000 yards of Flannel, which are- chiefly 

 confumed in England. This was ^ior to 1781, for in that 

 year the firft edition of this work came out. 



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