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one should perceive no difference in this respect between the North-Wallians and the natives of England. The pride of the Englishman may, perhaps, be gratified by so great a compliment paid to his vernacular tongue; but the philosopher will lose much by the amalgamation that is rapidly taking place in the language and manners of Wales, and our own country.

Your's, &c.

R. W.

rain, which the South-Britons with sarcastic impertinence denominate a Scotch mist, beat violently in our faces for three or four hours, and long before we reached St. Asaph drenched us to the skin. A brisk fire, however, soon remedied the evil. Having dried ourselves, therefore, and paid due respect to the rolls and

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tea, we strolled through the pretty town of St. Asaph, and visited its cathedral. This building is small, but extremely neat and clean, pleasingly situated on a little rise of ground, that swells out of the vale of Clwyd, nearly at its northern extremity. It was built towards the conclusion of the fifteenth century, but owes its present very decent appearance to the attention of the Dean and Chapter, who fitted it up a few years since, at the expence nearly three thousand pounds. One little breach of costume occurs in the body of the fabric, the stone figure of a bishop of the 16th century, who has been taken from his horizontal cumbent position, in which he reposed very soundly, and once more set upon his legs after a sleep of two hundred and eighty years! A grand view presents itself from the top of the tower, embracing the whole extent of the vale of Clwyd, the neighbouring mountains, and unbounded ocean. The more immediate objects are of the most pleasing kind-the bishop's palace, built by the present prelate, an elegant but modest stone edifice, with much taste and a great deal of comfort around it. The deanery, also, has its attractions in more ways than one.

Pursuing the western bank of the river for two miles, we reached the bridge of Rhuddlan, and crossing it, entered a town which was formerly one of the most respectable of NorthWales, but has now no trace of its ancient importance save the ruins of its castle. Situated on an eminence at the northern extremity of the vale of Clwyd, the sagacity of Edward I. easily discovered that a fortress built on the spot would prove a most important assistance to him in the great plan he was about to undertake the conquest of Wales; and accordingly, having taken possession of the place, he erected the present castle, (a strong square building) and made Rhuddlan the depôt of his stores, and the rendezvous of his army employed in this expedition. In grateful remembrance of the service which Rhuddlan had proved to him, Edward, after the subjugation of the Welsh, made the town a free borough, and conferred several very important privileges upon it. Here too he assembled a parliament in 1283, in which all the regulations relative to his new conquest were framed and established, and which being properly systematized and arranged, were passed into a