ple, and good old proverbs in Latin and Eng lifh. "Feftine lente," fays the one " He "ftumbles who goes faft, echoes the other. To believe, therefore, that He who moves flow, moves fure," is a reafonabler.conclufion. Indeed, I have wondered, that so very few of my emigrating countrymen have been of this way of thinking. On the contrary, they hurry through the deftined courfe as if they were running a race againft time, and were to perform fuch a given portion of it, within the hour by a ftop watch.

The most pleasantly fanciful at least, of all modern travellers, in his inimitable " journey," has given us, in his own sportive manner, a catalogue of travellers, with the epithets proper to, and characteristic of, each, fuch as the sențimental, political, idle, diligent, et cætera; but he has not, to my recollection, said any thing about the deliberate, or more correctly speaking, the refidentiary traveller, who fets out on a plan of fojourning in the parts of the world he describes, and mixes in the focieties of each long enough, to obferve accurately manners, customs, and events. The infinitely diverfified modes of thefe, must be overlooked, feen very partially, or not seen at all, by the modern Mercuries who go at full fpeed to the grand point

point of their destination-some of the capitals -and scarce give time for the horfes to be changed at the intermediate stages: or, if they are under the neceffity to stay a night at any of these, the most inquifitive of them ftroll thro' the streets, or faunter round the ramparts, while the fupper is preparing; the reft throw themfelves on chairs and sophas till arous'd by the return of their companions, who generally come back diffatisfied with their ramble, and, if they write at all, fit down betwixt fleeping and waking, and insert, in the meagre journal of the day, a drowsy, yet fplenetic, account of what they met with in their walk; depending on the fexton as the hiftorian of the buildings, and on fome chance paffenger as the intelligencer of the inhabitants, environs, police, &c. &c. At day break the next morning they are off, scarce allowing time for fwallowing a comfortless difh of coffee, fquabbling with their hoft for extortion, curfing the country they are under the immediate protection of, and difgracing the manners of their own. This done, they continue their expedition as upon life and death, and often, -alas, how much too often! finish their folly, their fortune, and their tour, at the fame time: for it is not till after their return to their native country, that these dashing travellers difcover, that their most precious things-time, money,

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and talents—have been wafted to receive only contempt, fatigue, and vexation in return-a fad barter.

But not to circumfcribe the inutility of rapid travelling to these cyphers of fociety, who in all countries are infignificant, the remark, I fear, and the cenfure, involves, in fome degree, per fons of a different description; in as far as the customary method of writing poft, on the policy, and practice of nations, must be injurious to the most respectable abilities, which cannot intuitively know occurrences, characters, and ufages, that arife out of time, place, and circumftance; and cannot (except to a lucky traveller indeed, and to him very occasionally) happen, while arrangements are making for the accommodation of man and horfe between stage and stage; and when all one can expect to fee are the most flight and ordinary objects that float, like weeds and offal on the stream, on the furface of the places through which we pass. Neither is the human mind, whatever be its powers, well difpofed to paint scenes and incidents when the body is worn down by the day's travel, and the fpirits jaded by the fatigue of motion: yet, if we look at the dating of our modern travels, the avowed objects of which are customs and manners, we fhall find that moft of

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the obfervations are the productions of the mo ment, written amidst the duft and hurry of going from the fpot defcribed to another, which is, in due time, to be dispatched in the fame way, Is it therefore to be wondered at, if we frequently find the common effects of an over hafty judgment-miftated facts, and falfe inferences T

All these convictions have ftrengthened me in the refolution of being a refidentiary traveller, making a reft in every country which I defign to glean. This, you will fay, my dear friend, is in character, but I fcruple not to affert, on an experience which I hope to make you partaker of, that tour-makers of the firft diftinction, and refpectability, have left many things unnoticed highly worthy their and the public obfervation, and which could not have efcaped, had they fuffered their patience to keep pace with their penetration.

The illuftration of this I truft you will gather as we go along.

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The fcenery of Nature, in a fummer drefs, is a volume open to every eye, and a copious page may be read at a glance: The most nimble traveller might luxuriate as he runs by them, and his landscape, though but the etch,

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ing of an inftant of time, muft, if he has kill to “catch the objects as they rife," and richnefs of genius to tint them, be various and delightful. Here, the border of Brecknockshire, which begins, just where what is now called England owns its boundary, I was enchanted with the first view, but difcovered at a fecond, third, fourth, onward to a fortieth, in various excurfions to and fro, during a fix months' refidence, a thousand and ten thousand particular charms which a first general furvey could never afford. I devoted an equal proportion of time to the northern as to the fouthern divifion, of this paradifaical principality, going to the extreme verge both ways, and traverfing backwards and forwards to look at their beauties in different feafons of the year; and it is the refult of thefe repeated vifits, which, at the prefent moment, I give you: I give it you, in the grateful warmth of my heart, for pleasure received, not without an earneft hope, at the fame time, that you, and others who have taste and affections to relifh the blooms of nature, and patriotifm enough to admire them not the worfe for appertaining to their natal island, may be tempted to enjoy the fame fcenery.

That Wales hath a claim to pre-eminence on the fcore of romantic beauty, can only be doubted

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