Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 10 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or tour journal. The page is numbered 10 and titled "A MONTH'S TOUR." The text describes the county of Flint in Wales, praising its pleasantness and fertility, mentioning geographical features like the rivers Dee and Merfey, and towns including Liverpool and Chester. It then shifts to a first-person account of a walk on the 20th (of an unspecified month) with someone identified only as "Mr. W—" to copper-works near St. Winifred's Well, where a Gothic temple supposedly built during King Henry VII's reign stands. The passage notes that twenty-three mills are powered by the stream there.
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10° A MONTH’s TOUR. Nothing can excel the fmall county of Flint, either in pléafantnefs or fertility. The-two fine rivers Dee and Merfey, the : town of Liverpool, the ancient city of Chefter, the infulated rock of Beefton, are objects which prefent themfelves from al- moft every part of it. In its bowels are mines of lead and calamine; on its fur- face, rich fields, woods and meadows. On the 20th walked with Mr. W ‘through a moft delightful grove to the a Copper-works, fituate upon a fine cryftal se brook iffaing from St. Winifred’s Well, ‘over which is a beautiful Gothic temple, “foppoted to have been built in the reign ‘of King Henry the: Seventh. Twenty- ‘three mills are turned by this flteam in comicbooks.com