THE

BEAUTIES

OF

England and Wales:

OR,

ORIGINAL DELINEATIONS,

TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE,

PRINTED FOR J. HARRIS; LONGMAN AND CO.; J. WALKER; R. BALDWIN;
SHERWOOD AND CO.; J. AND J. CUNDEE; B. AND R. CROSBY AND CO.;
J. CUTHELL; J. AND J. RICHARDSON; CADELL AND DAVIES; C. AND
J. RIVINGTON; AND O. COWIE AND CO.

ΤΟ

THOMAS JOHNES, ESQ.

OF

HAFOD UCHTRYD,

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, LORD LIEUTENANT, AND CUSTOS ROTULORUM, OF THE COUNTY OF CARDIGAN, &c. &c.

DEAR SIR,

I CANNOT deny myself the gratification of placing your name at the head of these pages. Under no other auspices can a work of this nature, purporting to exhibit a Sketch of the BEAUTIES OF SOUTH WALES, be with so much propriety ushered into the World. HAFOD is a word of magic sound in every Welshman's ears, from the sublime and enchanting scenes with which it is associated and to whom can I so well inscribe my little Volume, as to him who has made Hafod what it is ;~whose eye has so justly appreciated the charms of his native Country; and whose polished taste and munificent spirit have imparted to those charms, in so remarkable an instance, the most extensive and substantial improvements they were adapted to receive from the hand of Art.

:

Unworthy as this offering may be of your acceptance, you will, I trust, receive it as a testimony of my esteem; and of the sinceri ty with which I subscribe myself,

Dear Sir,

Your much obliged Friend, and very humble Servant,

London,

January 18th. 1815.

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THOMAS REES.