(...)"expression of admiration: three of the workmen, in the ardour of the moment, had the great good fortune to succeed in walking across upon the upper surface of the chain, and a shoemaker from Bangor seated himself near the centre of the curve, and there drove the last sparable into one of those useful productions of his art, called clogs.
It is a tribute justly due to the scientific projector of this stupendous work, while we admire its beauty, also to acknowledge its utility and entire success; and posterity will yet learn, with gratification, that Mr. Telford has lived to see the offspring of his great genius attain an age of maturity, without diminution of strength or incipient decay. If, when he has placed his laurel crown upon its cushion he perceives some leaves are wanting, let him not regret to hear that a few were gathered by his "fidus Achates," W. A. Provis: the winds have strewn a few more on the grave of Wilson, and Hazlediue grasps the others that are missing with an iron hand.
BEAUMARIS CASTLE;
THE town of Beaumaris, now a fashionable watering place, containing a permanent population of two thousand four hundred and ninety-seven soul(...)".
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