The COPPER Mines in this Island have been very successfully worked, and by the Perseverance of the Possessors, a Plot of Ground originally scarce of any Value, has been converted into a most profitable Estate, and the Discovery of a new Vein in the MONA Mine, will tend to keep that portion of this Species of Property, for Years, in a prosperous State. The Bed of ORE, is in some places more than Sixty feet in Thickness, and the Proprietors, at one period, are said to have annually shipped Twenty thousand ToNs. The Reply to the London Lawyer, by a Clergyman his Friend, whilst they were together exploring one of these Mines, is perhaps severe, as most that have been repeated. Doctor," said the former, who stood by him at the Top; as you know all things from the Surface to the Centre, pray how far is it from this Pit, to that in the infernal Regions?" cannot exactly ascertain the Distance, (replied the Doctor) but let go your Hand, and YOU'LL be there in a Minute."

66

66

" I

Among the Men conspicuous in this Island, was WALTER STEWARD, who, according to ROWLANDS, was the Ancestor of the Royal House of the Stewards or Stewarts, KINGS of

SCOTLAND and of ENGLAND.

"We have,"

says he, "by a strange Compensation of Providence, the Honour to say, that her late Majesty QUEEN ANNE, as well as some of her Royal Ancestors before her, enjoyed the ancient Kingdom of SCOTLAND, the Kingdom of ENGLAND, and the Principality of WALES, by Right of Inheritance, from Persons, whose Descent and Origin were from the Isle of ANGLESEA. For she had the Name of her Family, and the Crown of ScorLAND, as descended from WALTER STEWARD, who was born at ABERFRAW; the Crown of ENGLAND, in Right of the Lady MARGARET TUDOR, paternally descended from OWEN TUDOR of Penmynydd in ANGLESEA; and she inherited the Principality of WALES, from GWLADUS DDU, only surviving Daughter and Heiress of LLEWELYN AP JORWERTH, Prince of WALES, born and bred in ANGLESEA, who was married to Sir HUGH MORTIMER, by which Marriage, the Inheritance of the Principality of WALES, in Right of Blood, came to the House and Family of YORK, and by them to the CROWN, where it now happily rests."

Of less blazoned, and of trivial political

Consequence, is the Name of DANIEL HUGHES, Esq. born at Llantrisaint, who, having in an inferior Station, accumulated a Fortune in ENGLAND, retired to his native Place, where it was employed in Charity, and forming benevolent Institutions. His Character is duly appreciated in these Lines.

"Again the active Worth of HUGHES appears,
A blest Asylum for the Wreck of Years!
If there, his Views the opening Mind engage,
Here, he supports the trembling Limbs of Age;
His Breast embraced within its Godlike Plan,
At once the Morn and Evening Hours of MAN.”

Caernarvonshire.

Many of the Lakes in this County, abound with Fish, of which, some are peculiar to Alpine Waters, and others, noted for extraordinary Conformation. Llyn y cwn, or the Dog's Pool, which is considered the highest among these Mountains, contains three Sorts of Fish, EELS, TROUT, and PERCH, all of which have only One Eye, the left being wanting. GIRALDUS also remarks, that in two

Places in SCOTLAND, one near the Eastern, the other near the Western SEA, the Fish called MULLETS, possess the same Defect, having no left Eye.

As an eminent Man of this County, may be mentioned Sir JOHN OWEN, whose Conduct on his Trial, manifests a curious Trait of either present Pride, or posthumous Fame; an Order was issued, to try him with the Duke of HAMILTON, the Lords GORING and CAPEL; on the Trial he displayed the same Intrepidity, which had characterized him in more fortunate Times; when put upon his Defence, he undauntedly replied, " He was a plain Gentleman of WALES, who had been always taught to obey the KING; that he had served him faithfully during the War; and finding many honest Men endeavoured to raise Forces, whereby they might get him out of Prison, He did the like:" and then concluded in a dignified Strain, unconscious of Guilt, and careless of the Issue. The Sentence was, that he should be Beheaded. On hearing which, he bowed to the Court, and with a humorous Display of Fortitude, returned the JUDGES Thanks, for their Lenity. Being interrogated as to what he meant, his

Answer was prompt and audible, "It was, he said, a great Honour to a poor Gentleman of WALES, to lose his Head, with such noble LORDS; for, by GoD, he was afraid they would have hanged him." To the Astonishment of every one, Colonels HUTCHINSON and IRETON, afterwards became his Advocates; the latter observing, "that there was a Person for whom no one spoke a Word, and therefore requested, that he might be saved, by the sole Motive and Goodness of the House of COMMONS." In consequence he soon obtained his Liberty, retired to Clenneny his Estate, where he died aged Sixty-six, Anno 1666.

The SHEEP of this County, are the ancient Alpine Sort; from their ranging Mode of Life, they assume very different Habits to the Sheep of an inland County, and those of the Shepherd's Dogs, are no less conspicuous. The Excellency of these Animals, renders Sheeppens, in a great Degree unnecessary. If a Shepherd wishes to inspect his Flock, in a cursory Way, he places himself in the Middle of the Field or Piece they are depasturing, and giving a Whistle or a Shout, the Dogs and the Sheep, are equally obedient to the Sound,

F F