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in which they enjoy happinefs, that, in 

 feudal times, they never experienced. 



In thofe mountainous, or fecluded 

 parts of the country, that are fcarcely 

 known to the Englifh tourift, where their 

 manners ftill retain the greateft degree 

 of originality, the lower clafs of the in- 

 habitants appear to pofiefs an innocence 

 and fimplicity of character, unknown in 

 the populous parts of our own country; 

 and amongft thefe it is, that we are to 

 fearch for that native hofpitality, fo 

 much boafted of by the Welfh wri- 

 ters: but, wherever the Englifh have 

 had frequent communication, from their 

 being in general fo profufe of their mo- 

 ney, and from the temptation that this has 

 afforded to praclife impofitions on them, 

 I have found the people but little differ- 

 ing from the like clafs amongft us. On 

 the great roads, they feem to take a pride in 

 over-reaching, in moft of their little bar- 

 gains, 



