2<26 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



The women in the mountainous parts 

 are generally about the middle fize, 

 though more frequentlybelow, than above 

 it, and though their features are often 

 very pretty, their complexions are for 

 the moft part fomewhat fallow. They 

 wear long blue cloaks,* that defcend al- 

 moft to their feet ; thefe they are feldom 

 to be feen without, even in the very hotted 

 weather, owing moft probably, to the 

 fudden fhowers, which the attraction of 

 the mountains renders them liable to 

 be taken in. In North Wales, they 

 have all hats, fimilar to thofe of the 

 men, and they wear blue ftockings, 

 without any feet to them, which they 

 keep down by a kind of loop, that is 

 put round one of their toes. In the 

 moft unfrequented parts, they feldom 



* Blue was a favourite colour among the Britons, from the 

 earlicft periods. There is an ancient Welfh proverb, " True 

 ' blue keeps it's hue." 



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