Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 23 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 23: 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 travelogue section titled "A MONTH's TOUR." The text describes the author's journey from Gwinda to Holyhead in Anglesey, Wales, detailing the landscape's dreary appearance, its rocky terrain covered with furze, and a navigable channel crossing. It then describes Holy-head as a small western town in Anglesey with a church, Saturday market, and five King's packets (merchant vessels of seventy to eighty tons) that sail daily to Dublin except Thursdays. The page ends mid-sentence with "On," continuing to the next page.
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A MONTAH’s TOUR. og We .left Gwinda at fix, and arrived at Holyhead a little before eight. This pane of Anglefey exhibits a very dreary ap- pearance. It is a plain country, but a- bounds with. rocks, ‘which feldom. fhoat much above the furface of the earth, and is, for the moft part, covered with furze near'the road fide.’ Within three-miles of the Head we croffed a:navigable chan nel, ‘which divides the ifland into two une- qual parts. — Holy-head is a,fimall town in the. moft weltern part of Anglefey, has a church, - and.a market on Saturdays. . Here are fta- tioned five King’s packets, (oops of fe- venty or eighty tons burden) whichdail every day; except Thurfdays, for Dublins On comicbooks.com