North Wales ... delineated from two excursions

places that are altogether inaccessible to persons either in carriages or horseback.

From my first entrance into the country I had formed a determination, if I found my observations sufficiently interesting, to lay the result of them before the public. This I did in my Tour round North Wales, published about ten years ago. Till that journey was nearly completed, no tour of any importance, later than that of Mr. Pennant, (originally published in 1778,) had come to my knowledge. I had not then heard of those either of Mr. Aikin, Mr. Warner, or Mr. Skrine, and therefore, not without reason, considered myself as filling an unoccupied place in British topography. The work, notwithstanding there were no fewer than half a dozen others of a nearly similar nature, published about the same time, was so well received by the public, as to afford reasonable hopes of success to fresh exertions.

To the present work is attached a Map of North Wales, compiled from the most authentic sources, to which I could have access, and corrected by my own observations I fear that, in many instances, it may be found inaccurate, but as Mr. Evans's " Map of North Wales," which contains by far the fewest errors of any that has been yet published, now sells at the enormous price of a guinea, I was, from this circumstance, induced to attempt the compilation of a new one to illustrate my own journey. If it only tend to reduce the price of Evans's map, I shall consider the labour and expence that have been bestowed upon it as sufficiently repaid.

The Itinerary, inserted at the conclusion of the

volume, will be found of considerable use to the traveller, as it contains a notice of almost every object worth visiting throughout the whole of North Wales. It contains also an account of the distances, and a character (as I found them) of most of the inns.

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