here, however, every object tended to associate ideas of rural comfort and peaceful tranquillity, whilst the native airs heard from the doors of the cottages, were too cordial and too free, to issue from hearts much depressed by woe.

An introduction too into a small Welch farm house enabled me to judge of interior comforts; Lime, which is in frequent use with those Cottagers, had been spread in great profusion, and rendered every thing wholesome and cleanly. No litter was to be seen but in a corner cupboard, where every unserviceable article appeared laid up, as they informed me, for seven years. This space of time, they considered requisite to judge of the inutility of any article of apparel, &c. A good instance of their native

economy.

Thus gratified, I felt much disposed to enjoy the calm serenity of a fine summer's evening, and I strolled along in admiring attention, 'till my walk led me to an enclosure. It was a church-yard, aloof from the noise and hurry of the business of life; its very plainness, and the venerable air of the adjacent little

church, cast a shade of solemnity over the scene. Amongst many confused relicts of human mortality, death seemed to have brought to one level, men of every habit and profession; and however differing or unfriendly in life, they were now laid composedly side by side. There was one thing however that instantly caught my eye, it was a grave strewed with flowers; in its little enclosure were planted the Rosemary and some Thyme, whilst leaves of Laurel, and flowers that blossomed at that season were scattered around. In the next was growing a Cypress, whilst on many flourished the London Pride ;-not a weed grew on the graves!!

Here I considered with myself, does some bosom friend or relative often visit a spot where the object of his affection sleeps, to see it has received no injury or insult, and here in the exercise of tender sensibility, perform the spirit-soothing office of scattering over him an offering of flowers!-Is there nothing soothing in the recollections of affection?

Time has but half succeeded in his theft, 66 Thyself removed, the power to soothe me left."

I cannot call to memory the author, but even amongst barbarous nations, I recollect the like kind ceremony is practised. And wherefore is it then, my friend, that we, the more polished neighbours of Wales, have in our wisdom learnt to contemn an office breathing so much affectionate attention, and have suffered the consecrated cemetries of the dead to be carelessly trampled on by the feet of every passenger? Such inattention to departed objects of affection is, I know, not uncommon, and what is scarcely to be credited; (such is the liberality of the times,) that nothing is thought of scattering the dust of a once beloved relative to the wind, or of huddling into one common mass, his perhaps unconsumed bones, if perchance these repositaries of the dead present to the fastidious eye an uncouth appearance. The wild American is known to drop a daily tear over the earth that covers the object of his attachment; whilst in civilized England, on one too of the most polished towns in the West, the obloquy is to be cast, and not easily to be erased, of suffering the remains of those once honoured and respected within its circle, to be exposed to open day, and to the rude jests

and profanation of an unthinking multitude, merely to satisfy a depraved judgment and an unfeeling taste. However disgusting to every feeling be the conduct of such advisers, I will not, from a due regard to feeling, wish that their bones may at a future day be found bleaching and exposed in like manner to the vulgar gaze. But enough of grave subjects, and let me see if I am sufficiently composed to give my friend the result of my further progress in this interesting county, which exhibited such variety of scenery. Had I pursued my course up the vale, I should have witnessed the rocky wildness and thundering cascades round Aberdilli, the famous falls of Mellin Court, and the Dillis, where the cataract is seen falling through a dark rent of rock of the perpendicular height of 40 feet. These were the accounts I received from my attentive friend and companion, but aware of my arrangements, I felt compelled to leave such scenes to a future excursion in the northern parts of the principality, and it was well I had so determined, for I had scarcely returned to Swansea when a boatman came to announce the immediate sailing of the packet for the Devonshire Coast. I took leave with

many thanks of my valuable acquaintance Mr. C. and hurrying on board the vessel, which, by frequent tacks and a heavy press of sail, soon got clear of the harbour, I bid farewell to the Welch soil, not forgetting one of its greatest recommendations, the numerous female beauties every where to be met with; and whether it was owing to their singular tartan dress, or their cheerful and animated gait, I do not know, but amongst the labouring classes I never saw so much beauty in any part of England I have visited.

It was now seven in the evening, and from the assurance of the captain we were to be on the opposite shore, safely housed in about three hours. As we got, however, farther from land, the wind came on to blow strongly from an opposite quarter, and occasioned a heavy swell. The vessel consequently made little or no way, but seemed cast about at the mercy of of the waves. In this state of things the gloom of night fast thickened on us, and in addition to its darkness, a thick hazy atmosphere with a drizzling rain soon encircled us.

Hitherto I had walked the deck under some