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ject; as a piece of mock fcenery. The 
ery fummer had greatly prevented the ef- 
feé&t of thewhole, but the cafcade was ftill 
fe ficiently- confiderable to aftonifh even 
the moit phlegmatic vifitor. . Another fall 
of the Rhidoll is particularly well feen 
from a window in the ino: as the acclivi- 
ties are very numerous, and covered with 
a ine wweod, farming feveral deep dells, 
which open te a center, they are very tm- 
guiar and beautiful. I was reminded by 
thofe above the Rhydoll, of Se. Vincent’ s 
rocks, at Briftol Wells; but here is no 
bare face of rock of any great extent. 
The modern. bridge was contiruéted, 
about forty years fince, upot the old one, 
which is {iid to have been built by the 
monks’ of Strata Florida, and the merit 
of the performance is pow transferred from 
them to the Devil. There is, however, 
fcarcely a mountainous country in Europe 
in which he has not employed himfelf as 
ulefully, according to tradition, 
. Hints for a Defeription. 
e¢ The eye, mitirufting, afks if this be 
Wales ?? 
Take quantum fuff. of ftrong expref- 
fions, fuch as “* archetypes of nature— 
thundering cataraéts, gloric uily irregular 
—noifes loud and ru:nous’—* leaping 
waters, precipitated in an almoft inexpref- 
fible direGion’*—“‘ fupesdous chafms—in- 
ceflant repercuffions,” &c. &c. bottle 
ae for ule, or, if to be applied in a //o- 
lid fiate, they may be mixed together, af 
der the manner of faimagundi or hog’s 
pudding, and they will produce an admi- 
rable ipecimen of fine writing. WN. B, 
This family receipt, formerly m the pof- 
fefSion of Mr. C. has been ufed with great 
facccefs by the peripatetic Mr. W. Mr, 
M and the Cambrian Dire&tor, &e. 
No ‘chaife to Aberyfiwith could be pro-. 
cured for three,or four days, and although 
forced to remain, we were much gratified 
by views of nature, 
improved. his wooded valites, and cut 
paths, with great judgment, above the tor- 
rent river Yitwitl h, and its frequent caf- 
cades. Be etore the approach to the houfe 
jsa very noble theatre of wood, rifiag to 
4ahe fummit o: the mountain, which rivals 
many in the Appennixes. Mr. Johnes 
has adopted no particular ftyle of archi- 
teGure. His houle is a foit of Morifce, 
er whim caftle, with‘no pretenfions to re- 
guls .+ Grecian, Gothic, or Chinefe. The 
apartments are, notwithitanding, well pro- 
portioned, and fpacious.. The library is 
a3 ofi2gon, lighted from 4 cupola, with 
Odsfervations on modern Tours in Wales, ce. 
in her wildedt form. - 
We vilited Hafod, where Mr. Johnes has . bod bys 
[March 1, 
a gallery fupported by marble columns of | 
the correét Doric order, and opening to a_ 
parma nese There is a fine colleftion 
f hooks, chiefly relating to virtu and the 
bel 'es-lettres, with many curious editions 
of Froiflart, of which Mr. Johnes is 
about to favour the world with a tranfla- 
tion, and which he purfues €© con amare.” 
Toe effect of the whole is extremely im- 
pofing, and, asatembple of the Mvfes, i% 
nat too large to be habitable and ufeful.- 
Returnin ne to the Devil’s Bridge, we 
continued cur reute over the mountains, 
which gav- us a view of the fea, and the 
points of Cader Idris and Plinlimraon, 
It is Ag ey el of remark,-to thofe whé 
talk of the improved Bate of feciety and 
manners in South Wales, that the going 
at whofe houfe weflept, whois a man 
weelih, and had a ftock of 5200 theep, 
though he ‘had rebuilt it, fomvé years fince, 
has not yet whitewashed any of the rcoms— 
fuch are his ideas of comfort, by no means 
peculiar. (To be continued. ), 
—— 
To the Exitor of the Meathly Migiine. 
SIR, / 
Nec minimum meruere- decus, veftigia Greca 
Aufi deferere. 
T is afubje& of regret that arhong 
the tranfla ors who have endeavour- 
ed to beitcw an Englifh drefs on the 
authors of Greece and Reme, fo few 
have devoted their time to Greek infcrip- 
tions, and o:her fragments bequeathed to 
us by the earlie# antiquity. Some have 
even taken umbrage at theterin Epigramy 
as beftowed improperly on a compofition 
Containing generally neither point nor equis 
voque, but a fimple memorial of faéts not 
unfrequenty trivial, of perfons inglorious, 
or places unknown. | 
From a fpecimen of the work Epigrams 
made by the later celleGors, Lord Chef, 
ferfield was probably led into the error of 
uttering his interdict agai ft the whole 
‘Nay, fach was that nobleman’s 
vivacl:y of thinking and: fpeaking, that he 
net imp rehably for ‘med his opinion froma. 
_hint dropped in converfation, and not from 
any intimate acquaintance with the fpecies 
of ‘compofition which he has mof incon= 
ficierately reviled. -A: few of his Lordy 
fliip’s admirers ca ugat the idea, and ignos 
_rance and ftupidity joined in the hue and 
erg, led on by fafhion and ability. 
“The exploded epigrams found an ad 
mirfer in Dr. jotmicn, who employed his 
Jak momenis in trarflating feveral of them 
into-Latin with elegance ard fidelity. Ard 
Wir. Cumberland has eer Ak us, In big 
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