A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALFS. 

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feveral Sundays after the interment, and 

 then to drefs the grave with flowers. 



Among the Welfh, it was reckoned 

 fortunate for the deceafed, if it fhould 

 rain while they were carrying him to 

 church, that his bier might be wet witli 

 the dew of heaven.* 



I have obferved, that in many parts of 

 Wales, as well as England, the relations 

 moft ridiculoufly crowd all into that 

 part of the church-yard, which is South 

 of the church ; the north, or as they 

 term it the wrong fide, being accounted 

 unhallowed ground, and fit only to be 

 the dormitory of flill-born infants, and 

 fuicides. 



Mr. Pratt,-f has given us a mofl ani- 

 mated, and enchanting defcription of 

 the neatnefs of the Welfh church-yards, 

 and of the care that is taken by the re- 

 lations, of the graves of their kindred, 



* Pennant, II. 339. f Gleanings through Wales. 



but 



