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but I am forry to fay, that if this gen- 

 tleman has ftated facts, they muft be not, 

 as he has aflerted, m general, but com- 

 pletely local ; I never faw, nor could ever 

 during the whole of the three months I 

 fpent in Wales, hear of the graves be- 

 ing weeded every faturday, " of their 

 " being every week, planted with the 

 " choiceft flowers of the feafon," or 

 that if a nettle or weed, were feen on the 

 Sunday morning, the living party to 

 whom the grave, on which it was feen 

 belonged, " would be hgoted, after di- 

 " vine fervice, by the whole congrega- 

 " tion/' Mr. P. throughout the whole 

 of his volumes, feems to have mingled 

 too much of the novelift with his obfer- 

 vations. To this there would be lefs 

 objection, if by fome previous hint, he 

 could apprize us of the ent|re of the 

 former : the characters which ought 

 never to be confounded, might thus 

 be kept diftinct. But when a writer, who 



feems 



