20.J, A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Both fcxesof this nation took particu- 

 lar care in preferving their teeth. Thefe 

 they kept perfectly white, by continu- 

 ally rubbing them with a green haze! 

 and a woollen cloth; and what tended 

 much to their prefervation, they invari- 

 ably abftained from every kind of hot 

 food, ufmg only fuch-as was cool and 

 temperate. 



The men, who were chiefly occupied 

 in military affairs, fhaved their beards, 

 .leaving only a whifker above their up- X" 

 per lip. The youth went by clans and 

 families, with their chief at their head ; 

 and they were fo prompt in the defence 

 of their country, that they were per- 

 mitted to enter the houfes of every per- 

 fon with the fame fecurity as their own.* 



In the time of Howel Dda, How el the 

 Good, about nine hundred years ago, and 

 near three hundred before the time of 

 Giraldus Cambrenfis, the royal manfion 



* Girauld, Carob. Dcfcript. Cambria:, Cap. X, XI. 



confided 



