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a step-ladder staircase. The tiling of the roof came very near in contact with my head, while recumbant; and the bed-clothes had certainly been intended to cover the celebrated Polish dwarf.
Oswestry is the next noticeable place, remarkable for having (though rather a large town,) the fewest public houses we ever witnessed; we began to despair of finding any sort of quarters, to afford that refreshment, which a hot day and a hilly country had rendered absolutely necessary. At a queer kind of inn, however, surrounded by a phalanx of waiters, (such as they were,) we obtained what we required, and took our departure for the fertile and happy vale of Llangollen eight miles from hence: Mountain tops on each side terminated our prospect: these however, were sometimes hid from our sight, by revolving clouds. Beautiful bits of nature, simple and unadorned, met our eye in every direction.The
