Category: Travel Writing
THE REV. JOHN SKINNER’S _Ten Days’ Tour Through Anglesey_, which is given in the following pages, has been carefully transcribed from the manuscript in the British Museum, the punctuation, spelling, and use of capitals followed strictly throughout. Some notes have been kindly...
THE REV. JOHN SKINNER’S _Ten Days’ Tour Through Anglesey_, which is given in the following pages, has been carefully transcribed from the manuscript in the British Museum, the p...
2. Part 2Returning to Llanedwyn church we proceeded in company with Mr. Hughes of Plâs Goch towards Bryn Gwiderin. In our way thither he engaged a young man well acquainted with the coun...
3. Part 3Mŷnnedd Cnwc is a promontory running two or three hundred yards into the sea and forming the northern boundary of a small bay called Port Tre Castel to the south of which on a s...
4. Part 4Our servant having delivered a message from the people of the inn to one of the overseers of the Parys mine, he accompanied us over the works. A stranger not acquainted with min...
5. Part 5I should rather conceive that the metal was brass but whatever it was it would have been of more considerable value in the eyes of the antiquarian. Not far from this place he po...