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...equally fine and delicate; so that it is difficult to determine which to admire most, the Elegancies within, or the beauties without which each window affords you.
All that can be said is, being a young Single Man, and having between three and four thousand a Year, both Fortune and Nature seem to have done their parts, in giving him a Taste equal to the advantageous and beautifull[sic.] situation they have plac'd him in, and which is not often the case.
At our return Captain Painter Dined with us who is a particular friend of Mr Lloyd, is a very agreeable Man with all Colonel Mocher's address and politeness, and we ended the evening with a hoot[?] at Quadrille. The next day we drank Tea with Mrs Williams his Sister, at St Asaph, a pretty agreeable Woman, here we play'd at Quadrille likewise.
St Asaph is built with brick, is a neat pretty Town, and stands on the side of a hill, from the River, the Parish Church on its Banks; but the Cathedral at the top of the hill, and the Yard being so high has a most extensive prospect...](http://www.gtj.org.uk/storage/thumbs/batch_4002/GTJ28901.jpg)