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\vear any (hoes^ except on a Sunday, or 

 the market-day, and even then they of- 

 ten carry them in their hands, as they 

 go along the roads ; I have feen them 

 by fix or eight together, feated on the 

 bank of a rivulet, after their journies 

 from the neighbouring villages, warning 

 their feet, before they entered the 

 towns. In thefe journies, if their hands 

 are not otherwife employed, they gene- 

 rally occupy their time in knitting, and 

 I have fometimes feen that, even a hea- 

 vy fall of rain would not compel them 

 to give it up. Their employment with- 

 in doors is chiefly in fpinning wool. 



The Welfh people are naturally inquifi- 

 tiveand curious, but this is by no means 

 a circumftance peculiar to this country. 

 In all wild and unfrequented parts of the 

 world, it is the fame, and it is only in 

 fuch parts of Wales that this difpofition 

 is the moft obfervable. Dr. Franklin, 

 Q 2 has 



