LETTERS

WRITTEN DURING A TOUR THROUGH

NORTH WALES,

IN THE YEAR 1798; AND AT OTHER TIMES ;

CONTAINING VIEWS OF THE

HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES, AND CUSTOMS

OF THAT PART OF THE PRINCIPALITY;

AND INTERSPĖRSED WITH OBSERVATIONS ON ITS

SCENERY, AGRICULTURE, BOTANY, MINERALOGY,

TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.

BY THÉ RÉV. J. EVANS, B.A.

LATE OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXON.

THE THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR C.. AND R. BALDWIN, NÉW BRIDGE-STREET.

“ Tu nidum servas; ego laudo ruris amoeni
Rivos & musco circumlita saxa nemusque.
Quid quæris? vivo, regno, simul ista reliqui
Quæ vos ad cælum effertis rumore secundo.”

Hor. Epist. x. Lib. i.

56 O Nature, how, in every charm supreme,

Thy votaries feast on raptures ever new!
Oh for the voice and fire of seraphim,

To sing thy glories with devotion due !

Blest be the day I ’scap'd the wrangling crew
From Pyrrho's maze and Epicurus' sty;

And held high converse with the god-like few,
Who, to th' enraptur'd heart, and ear, and eye,
Teach Beauty, Virtue, Truth, Love, and Melody."

BEATTIE.