34.6 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES, 



found it the neatcft and bell houfe, of a mode- 

 rate lize, that ever we favv. The mafter it 

 fepms, was bred to the law, but quitted the 

 profelljon about fifteen years ago, and retired 

 into the country, upon an eflate of 500 per 

 annum,, with a wife and four children ; notwith- 

 ftanding which encumberances, he fpund 

 means to fit up the houfe in the manner we 

 faw it, with remarkable elegance, and to plant 

 all the hill about him with groves and clumps 

 of trees, that together with an admirable 

 profpecl feen from it, render it a place which 

 a monarch might envy. But, to let you fee 

 how vulgar minds value fuch improvements, 

 I mud tell you an anfwer made by our guide, 

 who was a fervant to Lord Powis's fteward, 

 and fpoke, I prefume, the fenfe of his mafter : 

 upon our expreffing fome wonder that this 

 gentleman had been able to do fo much with 

 fo fmall a fortune ; " I do not, faid he, know 

 '* how it is, but he is always doing fome non- 

 "' fefe or other." I apprehend, moft of my 

 neighbours would give the fame accpun^ of 

 my improvements at Hagley. 



Montgomery town is no better th#a a vi\- 



lage ; and all that remains of a,n old Qaftlc 



there, is about a third part of a ruinous 



tower ; but nothing can be fiaer than the 



X fituation of it and the profpeft. Jt mufl 



liave 



