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followed the stage coach; which was conducted with 
great caution by the driver, over a part of the road where 
the mountain overhung the carriage ; the wall was to the 
right, and a large shelving rock not blown up in the path- 
way of the road, required all the circumspection that could 
be employed. All was not enough. The coach tilted 
when it came upon the stone in the road ; it fell upon the 
wall; and Mr. Baker and I, scrambled over, just in time 
to take the passengers out at the window on the side of 
the wall toward the precipice. The coach balanced or 
the walk We put up at a tavern on the Anglesea side 
of the Menai : there as at every other tavern where we 
stopt between Chester and Anglesea, a harper introduced 
himself : and without further ceremony than the first 
obeisance, struck up the national tune “ of a noble race 
was Shenkin.” 
We passed in our road from Chester, Holywell, a 
flourishing little town, containing as I think the largest 
spring of water in the kingdom, turning many cotton 
works. But I know nothing more of it. 
We went to Amlwch, or Am Inch as the English pro- 
nounce it. I cannot imitate by writing or by sound, the 
guttural pronunciation of the Welch. The English with 
the vulgar impoliteness of ignorance laugh at American- 
isms. I confess we can do without lengthy^ and illy> and 
predicate : these are not expressions, which will justify 
our national literature in taking what we call “ high 
ground” And notwithstanding the excellent defence 
made in behalf of our language by the editor of the Port 
Folio against the ignorant and hasty sarcasms of the Edin- 
burgh Review, I could wish Mr. Barlow in his Colum- 
biad, had been more sparing of his novelties in language- 
novelties that he may own if he pleases, but which do not 
belong to us. Still our representatives do not deal in tru- 
isms — nor do they move Mr. Speaker to appoint a short 
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