is a great many and some straight and tall like a grove but not very uniforme. From thence I went back to Harding w^{ch} is 8 very Long Miles. At Holly well they speake Welsh; the inhabitants go barefoote and bare leg’d—a nasty sort of people. Their meate is very small here, Mutton is noe bigger than Little Lamb, what of it there is was sweete; their wine good being Neare y^e Sea side, and are well provided with ffish—very good Salmon and Eeles and other ffish I had at Harding. This shire is improperly Called Fflintshire there being noe flints in all y^e Country. There are great Coale pitts of the Channell Coale thats Cloven huge great pieces: they have great wheeles that are turned w^{th} horses y^t draw up the water and so draine the Mines w^{ch} would Else be over flowed so as they Could not dig the Coale; they have also Engines y^t draw up their Coale in sort of baskets Like hand barrows w^{ch} they wind up like a Bucket in a well, for their mines are dug down through a sort of well and sometymes its pretty Low before they Come to y^e Coales; it makes y^e Road unsafe because of y^e Coale pitts and also from y^e Sloughs and quicksands, all here about being mostly near y^e bancks of y^e water. In this Country are quarrys of Stone, Copper and Iron Mines and salt hills, its a hilly place, very steep descents and great many very high hills, but I went not so farre as Pen Ma Mower but Cross’d y^e river Dee haveing first went two mile by these Coale mines (at least 10) in a place (?) its a thing w^{ch} holds neer two bushell that is their Basket they draw up w^{ch} is bought for 6 pence. I forded over y^e Dee when y^e tide was out all upon the sands at Least a mile, w^{ch} was as smooth as a Die being a few hours left of y^e flood. Y^e sands are here soe Loose y^t the tydes does move them from one place to another at Every flood, y^t the same place one used to ffoard a month or two before is not to be pass’d now, for as it brings the sands in heaps to one place so it leaves others in deep holes w^{ch} are Cover’d w^{th} water and Loose sand that would swallow up a horse or Carriages; so I had two Guides to Conduct me over. The Carriages w^{ch} are used to it and pass Continually at y^e Ebbs of water observes y^e drift of sands and so Escape y^e danger. It was at least a mile I went on y^e sands before I Came to y^e middle of y^e Channell w^{ch} was pretty deep and with such a Current or tyde w^{ch} was falling out to sea together w^{th} y^e wind, the horses feete could scarce stand against it, but it was but narrow just the deep part of the Channell and so soone over. When the tyde is fully out they frequently fford in many places w^{ch} they marke as the sands fall and Can go near 9 or 10 mile over y^e sands from Chester to Burton or to Flint town almost; but many persons that have known the ffoards well y^t have Come a year or halfe a year after, if they venture on their former knowledge have been overwhelm’d in the