Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 12 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes a journey three miles from Holywell, where the traveler observes the estates of Thomas and Pennant and Sir Roger Moftyn situated between the turnpike road and sea shore. The passage details the scenic view, which includes the rivers Dee and Mersey, the Wirral peninsula, the Lancashire flatlands, and an extended seacoast visible to the north from Chester.
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ae. "3p A MONTH?’s TOUR. and infifted, with irrefiftible importunity, upon our drinking a glafs of his ale. After advancing about three miles from Holywell, we had a view of the feats of Mefirs. Thomas and Pennant, and Sir Roger Moftyn, all fituate between the turnpike road and the fea fhore, The traveller’s eye is here agreeably en- tertained with a moft extenfive and beau- tifully diverfified profpect. On the eaft are feen the rivers Dee and Merfey, the peninfula of Wirral, and the immenfe flat of Lancafhire. On the north an extended tract of the fea, which we f{carcely ever loft fight of, from Chef- ter comicbooks.com