Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 19 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 19: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is running prose from a chapter titled "A Month's Tour" (page 19) in what appears to be a travel narrative or historical account. The text describes military tactics used during what seems to be a siege at Conway castle—specifically how someone named Oliver used nine-pound cannonballs without success, then resorted to destroying lead water pipes to force the town's surrender through deprivation. The passage concludes with the narrator's account of leaving Conway and ascending Penmaen-Ross, noting the steep descent on one side and mentioning "great terror." The text uses period spelling conventions (e.g., "favour," "defence") typical of eighteenth or early nineteenth-century printing.
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A MONTH’ TOUR. 19. it proved ineffectual for fevéral yearse The balls he made ufe of appear ta-have been nine pounders, feveral of which are preferved at Conway, being’ found by dig- ging in-gardens. Thefe made but a very flight impreffion on the caftle. . But what Oliver was not able to effect by force, he accomplifhed by cunning. He deftroyed the leaden pipes, by means. of which water was conveyed to fupply the town, and fo ftarved them into compliance. We. breakfafted at eight, and left Con- way. The afcent of Penmaen-Rofs from the. town is gradual, the defeent ¢ on the other fide fteep; but the terror is ‘oor y Ce ex- comi cbooks.com