walk very commodiously side by side-On the inside is a rail-There are towers from space to space, not very frequent, and I think not all complete.

Wednesday, July 27.-We staid at Chester and saw the cathedral, which is not of the first rank-The castle. In one of the rooms the assizes are held, and the refectory of the old abbey, of which part is a grammar-school-The master seemed glad to see me—The cloister is very solemn ; over it are chambers in which the singing men liveIn one part of the street was a subterranean arch, very strongly built; in another, what they called, I believe rightly, a Roman hypocaustChester has many curiosities.

Thursday, July 28.-We entered Wales, dined at Mould, and came to Lleweney.'

Friday, July 29.-We were at Lleweney-In the lawn at Lleweney is a spring of fine water, which rises above the surface into a stone basin, from which it runs to waste, in a continual stream, through a pipe-There are very large trees-The hall at Lleweney is forty feet long, and twenty-eight broad-The dining-parlours thirty-six feet long, and twenty-six broad-It is partly sashed, and partly has

casements.

Saturday, July 30.-We went to Bâch y Graig, where we found an old house, built 1567, in an uncommon and incommodious form— My mistress chattered about tiring, but I prevailed on her to go to the top-The floors have been stolen: the windows are stoppedThe house was less than I seemed to expect-The river Clwyd is a brook with a bridge of one arch, about one third of a mile 3-The woods have many trees, generally young; but some which seem to decay-They have been lopped-The house never had a gardenThe addition of another story would make an useful house, but it cannot be great-Some buildings which Clough, the founder, intended

1 Lleweney-hall, as I have already observed, was the residence of Robert Cotton, Esq., Mrs. Thrale's cousin-german. Here Mr. and Mrs. Thrale and Dr. Johnson staid three weeks, making visits and short excursions in the neighbourhood and surrounding country.-Croker.

2 This was the mansion-house of the estate which had fallen to Mrs. Thrale, and was the cause of this visit to Wales. Incredible as it may appear, it is certain that this lady imported from Italy a nephew of Piozzi's, and, making him assume her maiden name of Salusbury, bequeathed to this foreigner (if she did not give it in her life-time) this ancient patrimonial estate, to the exclusion of her own children.-Croker.

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Meaning, probably, one third of a mile from the house.- Croker.