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Copper, 
tour to Amlwch or Amluch, in the isle of Anglesea which 
I visited in the year 1791, solely from curiosity to see 
the Parys copper mine of that island. 
We (I and Mr. Baker, a proprietor of oil of vitriol works, 
who wished to purchase sulphur at Anglesea ; the Mr. 
Baker, who combining some experiments of my own and 
Mr. Charles Taylor’s, struck out the most perfect and 
compendious system of bleaching yet known) went to 
Chester from my residence at Altringham. 
At Chester, a town of little trade, for it is a borough or 
corporation toivn , there is nothing remarkable but the por- 
ticoes of the street, hollowed out of the rock. The coun- 
try people of Wales, sell there, their home made woollen 
stockings, such as are here sold for 7 5 cents, at 10 pence 
sterling per pair by the dozen. (1791). It will be a long 
time before the raw material wool, is as cheap in America 
as in England. 
After leaving Chester, toward Conway, we found 
nothing but Welch spoken by the commonalty : I know 
of nothing so amusingly strange to an English ear, as a 
Welch scolding match, with which we were more than 
once entertained. Not a word of English from thence to 
Anglesea “ dim sausenick” I do not understand Saxon, 
or English, was the common reply. There is no such 
utter ignorance in this country. 
After visiting the ruins of Conway Castle, we took 
chaise (the Landlord of the inn refusing to let us have 
one unless with four horses) toward Anglesea, over Pen- 
man Maur. 
The road is dug on the side of the rock, and imperfect- 
ly made. A wall about five feet high protects the travel- 
ler from an abrupt precipice of about a hundred and fifty 
feet below, the sea for a great part of the way washing the 
foot of the rock ; on the side of which, we had to pass 
over a road from ten to sixteen feet broad. We slowly 
