LETTER XIII.

Welsh Pool-Montgomery-Powis caftle-Hiftory of the decayed English merchant, and his daughterTranfactions of a London Phyfician in Wales, and anecdotes of the late John Howard..

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p. 169.

LETTER XIV.

Character of John Howard-His perfonal HabitsHis philanthropy to man and beast-Vifit to him in Bedfordshire Various anecdotes of him collected in that vifit-His fingularities defcribed and vindicated-His fuperannuated horses.

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p. 192.

LETTER XV.

The Triumph of Benevolence, facred to the Memory of the late John Howard-Motives for the republication of that

poem.

LETTER XVI.

p. 212.

Welsh Bards-Modern and ancient-Affociations and Customs of the former-Manners and cuftoms of modern and ancient Welsh harpers.-Welsh druids-Anglefea.....

p. 215.

LETTER XVII.

Welsh Lakes and monumental reliques-Welsh Inquifitiveness-Hofpitality of the Welsh Nobles

-Lord

-Lord Newborough-The author's adventures on the road-And the happy Weavers..

LETTER XVIII.

p. 226.

Hiftorical perplexityA differtation on Biographers -From hiftorians A. to hiftorian, &c.-Farewell

to Wales..

...p. 278.

LETTER XXII.

Welcome to Holland-Contrafted with Wales The ancient hiftory of the Dutch Republick-With reflections, profaick and poetical.

p. 284.

A vifit to feveral Frontier and other German and
Dutch towns, previous to the breaking out of the
war-More emigrant hiftories-with a character
of Louis the XVIth-An interefting evening, in
which the Map of the world is examined by the
Company Dumourier's cannon-A fea adven-
ture, in the course of which the author gleans the
national French character, as to the impreffions
of Profperity and Adverfity-Obfervations on
the impolicy of the new French System, so far
as it refpects national or domeftic happiness-The

beauty of order-The deformity of anarchy-Character, and verses by a French emigrant of diftinction..

..p. 326.

LETTER II.

Review of the Dutch troops, by the StadtholderThe elements no respecter of perfons-A field day in the rain-Reflections on the advantages of Little over Great People...

...

p. 332.

LETTER III.

A letter on differeut fubjects, respecting the Dutch -Their modern marriages and deaths-The writer gleans a trio of travellers, a pair of which are authors; the one denominated in this our fheaf, Mr. Blank-being literally what that word expreffes Mr. Prize, for a like reason, and Mr. Blank-and-Prize, because he is a compound of the two others—A tribute of juftice to the Pencil and Character of De Loutherbourg...... p.

p. 361.

GLEANINGS

GLEANINGS THROUGH WALES.

LETTER I.

TO THE HONOURABLE MRS. B.

South Wales.

WHEN I mentioned to a learned and elegant friend my defign to pass fome years on the Continent, he cordially took my hand, and thus addreffed me :

:

"You are going to travel travelling, like love, "makes authors: authors make books: men, wo"6 men, and children, publish at home, what they "have seen or heard abroad ;-Ergo, were not you already an author, it would be expected of you "to write a book."

To travel then, and to publish, are become things of course, faid I ? "As much fo," rejoined my friend," as caufe and effect." It would be difficult, however, I prefume, to prove, that though they may be equally in order, they are equal in value; for, to multiply copies of copies of copies, is, furely, adding to the bulk of an evil that " has in"creased,

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