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A note book containing an account of a visit to Edinburgh and of a journey thence southward into England through Haddington, Dunbar, Prest, Berwick, Belford, Alnwick, Morpeth, Newcastle, Durham, Darlington, Northallerton, Rippon, Harrogate and Leeds as far as Halifax, in May and June 1775. The writer describes various places of interest which he had visited including Holyrood House, Alnwick Castle, Rippon Cathedral, and Fountains Abbey, and comments on industrial activity and other features which had drawn his attention in the towns and villages en route. Included also are extracts covering the period 1768-1838 made by ? H[ephzibah] E[mma] Howard 'out of a Diary of Mr. Rob[er]t Wynne of Garthewin'. These contain frequent references to members of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, and of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos and its related families of Clough, Conway, etc.