Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia: with views of peace and war at home and abroad. To which is added Humanity; or the rights of nature. A poem, revised and corrected. By Mr. Pratt. [pt.1]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

• LETTER I. THE Title explained—Conversation betwixt the author and his friend, on tourists and travel|lers—Plan of Literary Gleaning settled—The author's convention with the friend to whom these letters are addressed.
• LETTER II. The deliberate and dashing traveller contrasted, and their opposite characters developed—Reso|lution of the author to become residentiary in the places, and amongst the people, to be described— General plan of post-haste travellers—Sce|nery of Wales.
• LETTER III. Hints to young painters, on the fame and fortune of a pictorial tour through North and South Wales — Beautiful landscapes for the pencil and the pen — Abergavenny—Brecknock—Car|marthen,

• &c.—Compliment to Pennant and Gilpin—Sea-pieces—Rock-work—New and old passage—Laugherne—Kiddwelly—Llanel|thy, Swansea.
• LETTER IV. The romance of nature—The harvest of Gilpin and Pennant—The Gleanings of the author— Scenery of Mahuntleth—The author's enthu|siasm described and vindicated—Traits of cha|racter and constitution—The pleasures of a poetical mind—The exquisite beauty of this part of North Wales.
• LETTER V. The ride from Mahuntleth to Dolgelthy—A val|ley—Pretty Welch peasants—Cascades and Baths of Nature—Mountain of Caer Idris— Plentiful Gleanings—Castles in the Air—Other Castles—Pleasures of Imagination realized— Particular instance, and general character, of Cambrian hospitality—Welch gentry, farmers, peasants.
• LETTER VI. The Beauties of Barmouth—Romantic approach to it —Its resemblance to the rock of Gibraltar—Sur|rounding

• scenery—The sea—The beach—The black mountains—The happy valley—All trades in a cottage—The female barber and family— Cambrian loyalty.
• LETTER VII. Tour back to Aberestwith—History of the author's horse, addressed to men—Apology to the critics for that history—Every man's hobby-horse sa|cred—Story of a fisherman, his family, and friend—A heath—A hurricane—The roar|ing sea—And the blazing hearth.
• LETTER VIII. Life, death, and character of a friend—Reader, pass this letter, if thou art only a man or woman of the world; but if thou hast fancy, feeling, and an heart, select an uninterrupted hour to peruse it twice.
• LETTER IX. Aberestwith described—The place and country con|trasted to Barmouth—Welch customs—Price of provisions, and other Expences, stated, with a view to oeconomy and residence—All cheap places, more or less, destroyed by English folly

• and vanity—Various instances—Welch court|ship—Welch Church-yards.
• LETTER X. Welch superstitions—The sea roaring for three days together, to announce a shipwreck, or drowned sailor—The lighted candle walking be|fore you, self-sustained—The groaning voice coming out of the earth, &c.—The madness of methodism in Wales.
• LETTER XI. Welch fairies—Their Exploits—Residences— Dispositions—The author threatened with them —The fairy-haunted chamber—Visit to a Welch priest, who was fairy-ridden—Pontipool scenery—Festiniog scenery—Lord Lyttleton, and more fairy tales.
• LETTER XII. Festiniog—Lord Lyttleton's description of this en|chanting, and, as the peasants think, enchanted vil|lage, examined—Characteristics of the author— His peculiarities—Lord and Lady Clive—Their neighbourhood, and their character by their neigh|bours.—Gleanings for the heart.
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• LETTER XIII. Welch Pool—Montgomery—Powis castle—His|tory of the decayed English merchant, and his daughter—Transactions of a London physician in Wales, and anecdotes of the late John Howard.
• LETTER XIV. Character of John Howard—His personal habits— His philanthropy to man and beast—Visit to him in Bedfordshire—Various anecdotes of him col|lected in that visit—His singularities described and vindicated—His superannuated horses.
• LETTER XV. The Triumph of Benevolence, sacred to the Memory of the late John Howard—Motives for the republication of that poem.
• LETTER XVI. Welch Bards—Modern and ancient—Associations and Customs of the former—Manners and cus|toms of modern and ancient Welch harpers— Welch Druids—Anglesea.
• LETTER XVII. Welch Lakes—And monumental reliques—Welch Inquisitiveness—Hospitality of the Welch

• Nobles—Lord Newborough—The author's ad|ventures on the road—And the happy weavers.
• LETTER XVIII. Verses consecrated to the virtues of the late Jonas Hanway.
• LETTER XIX. More verses—And various Gleanings for the Af|fections.
• LETTER XX. The same.
• LETTER XXI. Historical perplexity — A dissertation on Bio|graphers—From historian A. to historian, &c. Farewell to Wales.
• LETTER XXII. Welcome to Holland—Contrasted with Wales— The ancient history of the Dutch Republic— With reflections, prosaic and poetical.
• LETTER XXIII. History of the old Batavians continued—Customs— Manners—Diversions.
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• LETTER XXIV. Their ancient marriages—funerals—superstitions and legislature.
• LETTER XXV. Poetical bandeau for the Gleanings—By way of twining round the first sheaf, which closes vo|lume the first.

CONTENTS OF THE SUPPLEMENTARY LETTERS.

• LETTER I. A visit to several Frontier and other German and Dutch towns, previous to the breaking out of the war—More emigrant histories—With a character of Louis the XVIth—An interesting evening, in which the Map of the World is examined by the Company—Dumourier's cannon—A sea adven|ture, in the course of which the author gleans the national French character, as to the impres|sions of Prosperity and Adversity—Observations on the impolicy of the new French System, so far as it respects national or domestic happiness—The beauty of order—The deformity of anarchy—Cha|racter, and Verses by a French emigrant of distinction.
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• ...LETTER II. Review of the Dutch troops, by the Stadtholder—The elements no respecter of persons—A field day in the rain—Reflections on the advantages of Little over Great People.
• LETTER III. A letter on different subjects, respecting the Dutch— Their modern Marriages and Deaths—The writer gleans a trio of travellers, a pair of which are ••••|thors; the one denominated in this our she••f, Mr. Blank— being literally what that word ex|presses—Mr. Prize, for a like reason, and Mr. Blank-and-Prize, because he is a compound of the two others—A tribute of justice to the Pencil and Character of De Loutherbourg.