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without danger. In Cornwall it is now 

 loft, but it continues yet to be fpoken in 

 North Wales, in it's original purity. 

 There have been many attempts to in- 

 troduce the Englifh language into gene- 

 ral ufe, amongft the lower clafs of peo- 

 ple in Wales, but without any great fuc- 

 cefs. Englifh charity fchools have for 

 many years been inftituted, in almoft 

 every part of the principality, but thefe 

 feem by no means to endanger the na- 

 tive language. The little that the chil- 

 dren learn from inftruclors, who them- 

 felves know but little, is foon loft from 

 the natural preference which they have 

 to the indigenous property of their 

 country, and their diftafte for an exotic. 

 To fay that I found them in general 

 entirely ignorant of the Englifh langu- 

 age, would be falfe, for in thofe parts of 

 Flintfhire, Denbighfhire, and Montgo- 

 merylhire, that are near the Englifh 



counties, 



