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miles, there is a sort of hedge ale-house, where we were necessitated to rest. We found the landlady, with a numerous family, preparing dinner; it consisted of beans, and small square lumps of bacon, fried and mixed together. The children were placed round a board, with each a wooden spoon: and with which they set to work, on the introduction of their provender, with no small degree of avidity. —We were here cheered with the comfortable tidings, of having eight miles of much worse road to traverse, 'ere we reached Welsh Pool.
On our arrival at this place, we found, that the assizes were then held here, and, as such, had only just time to remark it as a populous irregular town, with a decent inn; it being too full to afford us an asylum. Powis Castle is seen from here —Llannamulloch, 10 miles distant, was the place destined to receive us for the night. This is an insignificant little village, (part of which is inShropshire,
