A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 55 



Pvoman itation: but there^are not at 

 prefent the lead remains either of the 

 inonaftery or the city to be met with. 



CHAP. IV. 



FHOM RUABON TO WREXHAM. ERDDIG 

 WREXHAM CHURCH AND MONU- 

 MENT S 1 N S C R I P T IONS WREXHAM 



FAIR EXCURSION TO HOLT HURCH 



AND CASTLE. 



I LEFT Ruabon and proceeded towards 

 Wrexham, but in order to go through 

 the grounds of Philip York, Efq.* at 

 Erddig, I went along a footpath fome- 

 what to the right of the horfe road. 

 Thefe grounds are laid out with fome 

 tafle, but the efforts of art are fo infin- 

 itely inferior to the works of nature, of 

 which I had of late fuch ample treats, 



* The author of an excellent work, very lately publiftied, 

 \V -called the Fifteen Tribes of North Wales, containing much 

 hiftorical information. 



that 



