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counties, I found that they fpoke it 

 very fluently, It is in Anglefea, and 

 the mountains of Caernarvonfhire,.and 

 Merionethfhire, that they are the moft 

 ignorant of it ; and even here, in the 

 great roads, I almoft always had Englifli 

 anlvvers to my queftions, and even in 

 more obfcure fituations by a little perfe- 

 verance, or by the exhibition of money, I 

 have obtained the anfwers I wanted. 

 There is a natural refervednefs about 

 many of the Welfh, which fometiines 

 makes even thofe who can fpeak the 

 language pretty well, very fhy in doing 

 it, and this fhynefs is frequently inter- 

 preted by ilrangers into ignorance. 



Mr. Walter Davies,* fenfibly, but too 

 warmly remarks, that fome advocates for 

 the abolition of the Welfli tongue, are 



* Sec a ftatlfiic.il account of the parifh of Llanymynecb, 

 in Montgomeryfhire, by the Rev. Walter Davies, A. B. in 

 the Cambrian Regifter, Vol. I. p. 280. 



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