Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 20 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from "A Month's Tour," appearing as page 20. The text describes a traveler's journey through Welsh terrain, detailing the impressive and threatening Penmaen-madir mountain with its steep cliffs and massive stones, and an arch built to support the road nearby. The passage then relates how, after passing through a village called Llanaber, the travelers' carriage suffered damage to its hind wheel's linch-pin, causing repeated problems until they reached Bangor. The narrative uses archaic spelling conventions typical of the period.
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