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’Tis aster great Rain* under Water, and Paflengers take Guides, the Bridge*directing them. It was Built at the Country’s Charge, who also Pur-chased near 100 Vounds fer Annum to Maintain itj now under the Care ofthe Family of the Shuttlewoods, ’Tis farther oblervable, That there is agreat many Hills throwrr up call’d Burrows, mention’d by Sir Tbo. Brownin his Mifcellancotts Traft s, nippos’d tobe Segulchral Monuments.

Some Years great Quantities of Acus Major come into our Haven : andthey fty the Frelh Water blinds them, and that they Portend Hard Win-ters. They run their Bcakt into our Oufy Show, where the 7 n/eleavesthem, and so are taken up in great Quantities : they are soid to Eat likeMackareT, The Palate is ruled by the Eye, they looking like them. OurFen-Geeje, when taken up and Fed with Corn become as Good as others.

Aster Prelfing out the 0)1 from the Coal-Seed , the Remainder is call dCaAes, which here they Heat Ovens with, and Burn for Fcwel (but someSmell strong): we Export them to Holland, where they Feed'their Kintwith them.

II. The Stone at Cbcster , which is soft Reddifh Grit, and very Friable, oifinutiotuatwith Sbining Particles intermixt, is very ape to Decay with the Weather: Edm." ’ Haiicy!So that all Old Buildings are very rauch Dcfac’d thereby, and the Walls ->. p.which are Built thereof, are so frequently out of Repair, that they have

Officers on purpole, whom they call Murengers, who do Gradually Re*fit them, where they are mostWorn out. In some places the Stone is in amanner mouldred away like Sammet Bricks in a Wall, leaving the Mortarstanding. In these Stones, and the Jguarries from whence they came, Ihave diligently scught for Shells, or other Animal Subfivnces, such as areosten found in other Places, but fiitherto have found no such chings; Butthe Stone'n generally Intersperso with Pebbles and finali Flints , which as theStone Decays, do diseover thcmselves within it, as if they had been Lodg-ed in the Sand, whereof the Stone Consists, before its Induration.

III. From the Top of Snowdown-Hdl the Sea Dipt every where a bove a -Mcoum ofDegree below us, the Vtfiblc Horizon being a Leffer Circle. We saw Ireland ^M^Edlr^ndplainly, from the W. b.S. toS.W. b. W.and then appearing in theN.N. W. luiiey. n. 129.and the Mountains otCumberland or Westmoreland very Faintly, but evident- p- s66m

ly in the North ; and I think we law as far as St. Davids Head into theSouth j Camarvanfhire and Anglefey lay Under us, like a Mag, affordmga very Pleafänt Prospect, were it not for the Horrours of the Neigh-fcouring Precigices. Hence we counted 15 or 1 6 Lake s, Great and Small,where theCavities of the Recks are fill’d up with the Rtlls that Gleet fromthe Hills : all these are said to abound with Trouts, some of which wefound to be special good Filh. And in one of theso Lakcs I wa> on Board aFloating Tjland, as it may be call’d : the Lake is searce half a Mile About,

Environ’d with a Boggy Turfy Soil, aPiece of which, about 6 Yards Longand 4 Broad, Float s on the Water, being about y or 6 Inches Raisdaboveit; but it is, I believe, about 18 Inches Deep within the Water, having

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