Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 115 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 115: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or travelogue, marked "A MONTH's TOUR" at the top. The text describes a journey through Wales (references to places like Gwindu and Porth-llongdu, with etymologies from "ancient British language"). The narrator recounts dining at a lodge belonging to a clergyman with mining interests, then departing on the fifteenth to visit Porth-llongdu, whose name is explained as deriving from Romans landing there with a "black ship"—the word "Mong" signifying "ship" and "du" meaning "black" in ancient British. The page ends mid-sentence with the phrase "who shewed us in his pasture the" followed by page number "P 2" and the word "traces."
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
A MONTHs TOUR. | 185. ‘brought hither at the. {mall.expence. of four fhillings and fixpence.per ton. We dined at a‘fmall village of the fame mame, in a beautiful lodge belonging to the. reverend Mr. H——, who has a very confiderable property in the mines of Paris mountain, and returned at night to Gwindu. On'the fifteenth wetook ‘leave of ‘our obliging hoftefs at nine é’clock; and pro- ceeded to Porth-llongdu, in the -eaftern part of the ifland, which is fuppofed to have derived its name from the circum- ftance of the Romans landing there‘witha black fhip: Mong fignifying, in the ancient Britifh language, jbip, and du, black. This is the refidence of the reverend Mr. H—, who fhewed us in his pafture the ie Fa traces comicbooks.com