20O A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



They were keen in their refentments, 

 and revenged moft deeply any infult, 

 committed on their family. They were 

 vindictive and bloody in their anger, 

 and too prompt to avenge, not only re- 

 cent injuries, but even thole committed 

 at very remote periods. 



They did not in general refide in ci- 

 ties, villages, or camps, but led folitary 

 lives in the woods. On the borders of 

 their forefts, the lower clafs formed their 

 dwellings, by twifted ozier coverings, 

 fuited to the different feafons of the year, 

 but with as little art, as expence. 



They had no beggars in their whole 

 country, for their hofpitality was extend- 

 ed to every one. They efteemed liberali- 

 ty, and particularly hofpitable entertain- 

 ment, as preferable to every other vir- 

 tue. By a mutual return of civilities, 

 this habit was fo common, that when- 

 ever a traveller entered a houfe, upon 



deliver- 



