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Letter 2nd. Being a continuation of
the voyage up the Irish Sea to Liverpool
and the commensement of a journal
of the residences on Land &c &c - 1827

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First day morning 7mo 15th 1827

After a long series of Hopes fears,
anxieties and disappointments, we took a
Pilot on board this morning at 4 oclock
off Point Linas.– Island of Anglesea
to which Holyhead would be joined
except for a cleft between the rocks
of the Island & ' [heads?] over which a bridge
is suspended. Anglesea is connected with
the Island by a most superb bridge
of Iron chains, which reaches from
the island to Wales, of sufficient height
at ebb tide for the tallest mast to
pass under without interfering with
its stupendous structure. Stupendous
it is indeed – for nothing perhaps
in the known world can at present
bear a comparison with this specimen
of British enterprise.– This day
after a pleasant wind for a few hours
in the morning, left us with another