35$ A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



together with his wood, make a garden or 

 park of the moft perfect beauty; but all is yet 

 in a rude and neglected ftate. From thence 

 we went to Baron-hill, the feat of Lord Bulke- 

 ley, above the town of Beaumaris, in the fame 

 ifland; it has a view of the fea, and coaft of 

 Carnarvon ; which is indeed very fine, but I 

 think inferior to that of Lord Edgecombe's, 

 with which I have heard it compared. The 

 houfe is a bad one; the gardens are made in a 

 very fine tafte; but, upon the whole, I like it 

 much lefs than Sir N. Bayley's, though the re- 

 putation of the former is greater in Wales. 



All the reft of the Ifle of Anglefea is a na- 

 ked and unpleafant country, without a tree or 

 hedge to be feen in it, uncultivated ftill, from 

 the obftinacyof the people, in adhering to the 

 ignorance of their forefathers; fo that I am 

 told, that it does not produce the tenth part 

 of what the land is capable of, if improved by 

 the agriculture of England. From Beaumaris 

 we rode over the Sands, at low water, to Pen- 

 man Mawr, a high and rocky mountain, the 

 paflage over which muft have been very fright- 

 ful, before they built a wall along the edge of 

 the road, which fecures you from the danger 

 of falling down the precipice that is below it 

 into the fea; but with this guard it is very 

 agreeable, the profpei of the fea and the 



country being very fine. 



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