A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES, 



vain enough to prognofticate a near ap- 

 proaching day, when it will be numbered 

 among the dead. They fee fome few 

 families upon the borders, and about a 

 dozen Innkeepers upon the poft roads, 

 who fpeak Englifh only ; but there are 

 thoufands and tens of thoufands, in the 

 wilds of Wales " who have learned the 

 " language of their parents, and of 

 " their country, as naturally and as 

 " innocently as they fucked their mo- 

 " ther's breads, or breathed the com- 

 " mon air : they have neither opportu- 

 " nity nor inclination, to learn any other 

 " tongue." This is the impregnable 

 fortrefs of the Welfh language, where a 

 rivettcd cordial antipathy againft the 

 Englifh tongue, caufed by the cruelties 

 of Edward the firft, and of the Lancaf- 

 trian family dwells as commander in 

 VOL. n. Z chief. 



