Bennet warrants it as the best watch which they
can produce. If it prove as good and as durable as he prophesies, J-----
will find it a perfect time-keeper long after his father has done with
Time. If I had not thought of his wearing it hereafter, I should have
been content with a much inferior one. No. 39,620.
September 20th.--I went back to Rhyl last Friday in the steamer. We
arrived at the landing-place at nearly four o'clock, having started at
twelve, and I walked thence to our lodgings, 18 West Parade. The
children and their mother were all gone out, and I sat some time in our
parlor before anybody came. The next morning I made an excursion in the
omnibus as far as Ruthin, passing through Rhyddlan, St. Asaph, Denbigh,
and reaching Ruthin at one o'clock. All these are very ancient places.
St. Asaph has a cathedral which is not quite worthy of that name, but is
a very large and stately church in excellent repair. Its square
battlemented tower has a very fine appearance, crowning the clump of
village houses on the hill-top, as you approach from Rhyddlan. The
ascent of the hill is very steep; so it is at Denbigh and at Ruthin,--the
steepest streets, indeed, that I ever climbed. Denbigh is a place of
still more antique aspect than St. Asaph; it looks, I think, even older
than Chester, with its gabled houses, many of their windows opening on
hinges, and their fronts resting on pillars, with an open porch beneath.
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