APPENDIX. 



As we rode from Carnarvon, the country 

 about was foftened into a fcerce of the moft 

 pleafing kind ; and was rendered more fo, by 

 the contraft with that from which we came. 

 We travelled along the fhore of Menai, an 

 arm of the fea, as broad as the Thames, over 

 againft Lord Duncannon's. Our road led us 

 over fine lhady lawns, perfumed fo with ho- 

 neyfuckles, that they were a paradifetto. Over 

 gentle hills, from whence we had a lovely 

 view of the Menai, and the Ifle of Anglefea, 

 which lies on the oppofite fide of it 5 and then 

 loft them again in agreeable valleys, like thofe 

 of Reading, or the Hertfordfhire vales. We 

 enjoyed thefe fcenes for fome miles, till we 

 came into a ferry, by which we paffed into 

 Anglefey, and landed at the feat of Sir Ni- 

 cholas Bayley,* which is the pleafanteft fpot 

 in the iiland. He has gotherized an old houfe 

 with good judgment and tafte. The view 

 from it is charming; he fees the fweet coun- 

 try, through which we had travelled, from 

 Carnarvon to Snowdon above it, which en- 

 nobles the profpeft; the Menai winds, in a 

 moft beautiful manner,juft under his windows; 

 his woods (hade the banks on each fide of it, 

 quite down to the water; above which, in- 

 termixed with them, are ever-green lawns, 

 which, if helped with a very little art, would, 



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