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Excursion through North Wales. [Sept. 1, 
the day was taken, from which they 
were immediately relieved, and gra¬ 
dually recovered. One of them was a 
young woman twenty-seven years of 
age, who was troubled with excruci- 
at mg pain in the back and sides, and 
alarming difficulty of breathing; the 
eyes were surrounded with A ery dark 
circles, and her complexion was sallow. 
A physician prescribed active purges in 
the day, and six leeches and a blister to 
the side at night; next morning such 
frequent fain tings occurred, aud so 
great a degree of debility ensued, as 
confined her to her bed for a fortnight, 
and excited considerable apprehension 
for her recovery. After a time she 
fried the nitric acid, &c. with imme¬ 
diate and permanent benefit; no longer 
complaining of difficulty of breathing, 
or pain. In no case I have witnessed, 
did this plan appear so strikingly su¬ 
perior to the other, as in this: and 
there is reason to believe that the phy¬ 
sician who attended, will in future be 
less precipitate in calling these mala¬ 
dies liver diseases, and certainly will 
prefer the aperient tonic plan of treat¬ 
ment to any other. 
It is of no small importance that the 
public should be informed that disorder 
of the digestive organs, attended with 
severe pain in the parts where they are 
situated, is of very frequent occurrence, 
while diseased liver is comparatively 
rare ; because many medical men seem 
ignorant of this fact, and the means 
that are often instituted to cure the 
latter when not existing, cannot fail to 
increase the former, and even to pro¬ 
duce that disease in the liver which 
they were mistakiugly intended to re- 
nwve. T. J. Graham. 
Cheltenham , June, 1821. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
EXCURSION through NORTH WALES, 
in 1819. 
C Continued from No. 355, p. 532. J 
T HERE are many, very many, who 
contemplate with ecstasy the 
mighty and magnificent wonders dis¬ 
played over the" face of the earth in 
never-ending variety; whose minds 
are elevated, and whose imaginations 
are delighted as they revel amidst the 
luxuriance that surrounds them, and 
who view through the happy medium 
of grateful pleasure the sublime and 
lovely productions of the Creator. 
And thus whene’er 
Man feels as man, the earth is beautiful. 
His blessings sanctify even senseless 
things, 
And the wide world in cheerful loveliness 
Returns to him its joy. The summer air, 
Whose glittering stillness sleeps within his 
soul, 
Stirs with its own delight. The verdant 
earth, 
Like beauty waking from a happy dream. 
Lies smiling. Each fair cloud to him ap¬ 
pears 
A pilgrim travelling to the shrine of peace ; 
And the wild wave, that wantons on the 
sea, 
A gay though homeless stranger. Ever 
blest 
The man who thus beholds the g-olden 
chain 
Linking his soul to outward nature fair. 
Full of the living God. 
The recollection of our walk over 
the hills of Meiionetbshire, has given 
birth to these imperfect and perhaps 
gratuitous observations. Beautiful, in¬ 
deed, is the scenery in that secluded 
and romantic district,—too beautif >. 
for description by any but the heaven- 
born and rapturous poet. JFe, therefore, 
will not presume to pourtray it; but 
content ourselves with remarking, that 
had our good-humoured acquaintance, 
abovealluded to, accompanied us in our 
ramble, his opinion of “countrified 
landscapes ” would have experienced a 
powerful shock, if not a complete re¬ 
volution. 
After dinner, Mr. W. proposed that 
we should visit the monastic ruins of 
Vanner abbey in the evening; and 
after tea we repaired thither, in com¬ 
pany with our friend and a young gen¬ 
tleman, a native of the town. Vanner, 
or as it is sometimes called, Cymmer 
Abbey, is about three miles from Dol- 
gelley, and situated on the banks of 
the river Mowthach, near the beautiful 
village of Llanelltyd. It was once of 
considerable note, and contained many 
eminent persons within its walls ; but 
now it is scarcely known to the inha¬ 
bitants of the neighbouring moun¬ 
tains. Tiie ruins consist of the refectory 
—converted into a farm-house; and 
what appears to have been the aisle of 
the church, the walls of which are very 
plenteously covered with ivy. At 
the entrance is a large and venerable 
plane tree, whose wide-spreading 
brauches cast around a gloom perfectly 
consonant with the sacred character of 
the place. The east end is the most 
perfect, and through its thick covering 
of ivy may he discerned two or three 
lancet-shaped windows. Against the 
wall on the south area few small gothic 
pillars, and an aperture in the wall, 
where 
