July 14.-We are at Cowbridge, Glamorganshire. Having travelled 40 miles to-day, through Newport, Cardiff, and Landaff:-the country just uneven enough to afford extensive views over an immense extent of cultivation, lost in the blue distance; nothing wild, or, properly speaking, picturesque, but all highly beautiful, and every appearance of prosperity. Wales seems more inhabited, at least more strewed over with habitations of all sorts, scattered or in villages, than any part of England we have seen, and which are rendered more conspicuous by white-washing of the most resplendent whiteness. Every cottage too has its roses, and honeysuckles, and vines, and neat walk to the door; and this attention bestowed on objects of mere pleasurable comforts, is the surest indication of minds at ease, and not under the immediate pressure of pover ty. It is impossible indeed to look round without the conviction, that this country is, upon the whole, one of the happiest, if not the happiest in the world. The same class in America has certainly more advantages, and might have more enjoyments; but superior industry and sobriety more than compensate for the difficulties they have to struggle with here. The women we see are certainly better looking than nearer London. The language of the inhabitants is quite unintel ligible to us; at the inns, however, all is transacted in English. Having gone to see some ruins while the horses were changing at Cardiff, we found the post-boy had driven away; and on inquiring the reason on his return, he said he was afraid the horses would catch cold standing;this is delightful for the middle of July, when the people of New York are dying with heat. July 16.-Tenby. Ninety-one miles in two days, through a hilly but rich country, affording continually vast views of cultivation, a surface chequered with fields and hedges, and studded over with white dots, the outside of cottages, roofs, and chimneys, and even the very stones on the road near the houses, being fresh whitewashed. There is no particular beauty in all this on near inspection, but distance ennobles and harmonizes all; and many of the views, without woods, without rocks, or high mountains, and without water, were still highly beautiful, and almost sublime. Very few commons or waste grounds were to be seen; those few had sheep and a vast number of young asses grazing about; these, with their long ears and small bodies, and their vivacity, gave the idea of rabbits in a war ren, And they would toss their heels in gamesome play, Near Swansea we visited the copper and iron works. They were just opening a smelting furnace; the fused copper, in a little stream of liquid fire, flowed along a channel towards a cistern full of water; we saw it approach with terror, expecting an explosion; instead of which the two liquids met very amicably, the water only simmering a little. The workmen looked very sickly: we found, on inquiry, their salary was but little higher than that of common labourers. It is remarkable, that, much as men are attached to life, there is no consideration less attended to in the choice of a profession than salubrity. We came in sight of the sea several times today. It blew fresh in shore, but there was not much surf, from being, I suppose, a confined sea. Single trees, oaks particularly, are in general very much bent, almost horizontally, from the sea; that is to say, the stem is, while the boughs and leaves turn towards it. Large woods, covering steep ascents facing the sea, we observed growing straight and thriving; the trees protect each other, or the height behind obliges the sea air to pass over their heads. We crossed several iron rail-ways, leading from founderies and coalmines in the country to the sea. Four low castiron wheels ran in an iron groove lying along the road. It is now, however, the general custom to place the groove on the circumference of the |