These little dwellings were generally surrounded by a few acres of well-cultivated land enclosed from the moor.

It is much to be regretted that the plan of cottage culture is not more generally promoted; wherever I see it practised I view it with pleasure, as tending to increase the comforts of the poor.
On the 19th they attended the Half-year's Meeting at Swansea.

A Committee of the Yearly Meeting was present.

Elizabeth Dudley was also there, with a certificate for religious service; and she and John and Martha Yeardley, finding that the errand on which they were come was the same, resolved to join company and travel together through South and North Wales.

They were accompanied throughout the journey by Robert and Jane Eaton of Bryn-y-Mor.
As there are very few meetings of Friends in Wales, the chief part of their service was beyond the limits of the Society.