134 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES, 



The Nobility and Gentry of 



the adjacent counties 



having united| their efforts with 



the great commercial intereft of this county, 



in creating an intercourfe and union, between 



England and North Wales, 

 by a navigable communication of the three rivers, 



Severn, Dee, and Merfey, 



for the mutual benefit of agriculture and trade, 



caufed the firft ftone of this aqueduft of 



Pont Cyfyllty, 



to be laid, on the ijth. day of July, MDCCXCY- 



when Richard Middleton of Chirk, Efquire, M. p. 



one of the original patrons of the 



Ellefmere Canal, 



was Lord of this manor, 



and in the reign of our fovereign, 



GEORGE THE THIRD, 



when the equity of the laws and 



the fecurity of property, 

 promoted the geaeral welfare of the nation, 

 while the arts and fcicnces flourifhed 



by his patronage and 



the conduft of civil life, was improved, 



by his example. 



I returned to Llangollen by the Of- 

 weflry road, on the fouth fide of the ri- 

 ver ; this is confiderably elevated above 

 the bottom of the vale, and from hence 

 all the furrounding objects, are feen to 



great 



