Category: Travel Writing
“Like brethren now do Welshmen still agree In as much love as any men alive; The friendship there and concord that I see I doe compare to bees in honey hive, Which keep in swarme, and hold together still, Yet gladly showe to stranger great good will; A courteous kinde of love...
“When the heathen trumpet’s clang Round beleaguer’d Chester rang, Veiled nun and friar grey March’d from Bangor’s fair Abbaye; High their holy Anthem sounds, Cestria’s vale the...
7. CHAPTER VIII.Gwydir Castle.—Llanrwst Shaking Bridge.—Inn.—Town Hall.—Free Schools.—Alms Houses.—Rhaiadr y Parc Mawr.—Llyn Geirionydd.—Taliesin.—Trevriw.—Slate Quarries.—Conway.—The Suspensio...
6. CHAPTER VI.Departure from Beddgelert.—Vortigern’s Hill.—Snowdon.—Llyn Gwynant.—Gwrydd.—Public Houses.—Lake Fishing.—Pass of Llanberis.—The Lakes.—The Castle of Dolbadarn.—View of the Lakes...
5. CHAPTER V.Harlech.—The Inn.—The Castle.—Anecdote of Davydd ab Ivan ab Einion.—Road to Maentwrog.—View.—A Persevering Cobbler.—The Oakeley Arms.—Angling Stations.—Road to Tremadoc.—Tan y B...
1. CHAPTER I.“Like brethren now do Welshmen still agree In as much love as any men alive; The friendship there and concord that I see I doe compare to bees in honey hive, Which keep in swarm...
2. CHAPTER II.“I crossed in its beauty the Dee’s druid water, The waves as I passed rippled lonely and lone, For the brave on their borders had perished in slaughter, The noble were banished,...
3. CHAPTER III.Bala.—The Lake.—A Jolter.—Glan y Llyn.—Vale of Drws y Nant.—Cader Idris.—Dolgelley.—The Town Hall.—Parliament House.—St. Mary’s Church.—Inns.—Angling Stations.—The Cataracts of...
4. CHAPTER IV.Description of Barmouth.—Sketch of the Town.—The Estuary.—Friar’s Island,—Dinas Gortin.—Earl of Richmond.—Anecdote of the Men of Ardudwy, and the Men of Denbighshire.—Corsygedol...