Category: Travel Writing
Descent of Plinlimmon--Singular 17 illusion--Llangerrig--Commencement of the picturesque--The Fall of the Wye--Black Mountain--Course of the river--Builth--Peculiarity of the scenery--Approach to the English border--Castle of the Hay--First series of the beauties of the Wye
"Monmouthshire," as has been well observed, "though now an English county, may be justly considered the connecting link between England and Wales, as it unites the scenery, mann...
22. CHAPTER IX.Raglan Castle--Description of the ruins--History of the Castle--The old lord of Raglan--Surrender of the fortress--Charles I. and his host--Royal weakness--The pigeons of Raglan...
26. CHAPTER XIII.The romantic region of Piercefield, extending from Chepstow to Wyndcliff--a distance of about three miles by the sinuous walk, is one of the grand attractions of this place. It...
25. CHAPTER XII.The Wye being now a tide river, time requires to be studied by the traveller who would see it in its beauty or grandeur. The shores must be hidden by the full stream, and the ov...
24. CHAPTER XI.The "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour," are justly esteemed one of the masterpieces of modern poetry; but indepen...
23. CHAPTER X.Just below Monmouth the Wye forms a sharp curve, the apex of which is met by the Monnow and the Trothy, in such a way that these two streams, tending to nearly the same point, b...
18. CHAPTER V.If the conjecture of antiquaries be correct, that the great Roman road from Blestium to Gloucester, by Ariconium, proceeded by the ford of the Wye at Goodrich Castle, it is poss...
14. CHAPTER I.Foreigners have often expressed their surprise that the English should travel so far in search of picturesque scenery, when they have abundance at home: but the remark is concei...
15. CHAPTER II.Descent of Plinlimmon--Singular illusion--Llangerrig--Commencement of the Picturesque--The Fall of the Wye--Black Mountain--Course of the river--Builth--Peculiarity of the scene...
16. CHAPTER III.Leaving Hay, the valley widens, the background softens, and the whole scene assumes the character of an English vale, where the hills on each side are cultivated to the summit....
17. CHAPTER IVComparatively speaking, there is little worthy of remark between Hereford and Ross; and yet Gilpin's charge of _tameness_ is unjust. What it wants is excitement. The valley of t...
19. CHAPTER VI.The woods rising amphitheatrically on the left bank, just before reaching Ruerdean, are called Bishop's Wood; and there will be observed, for the first time of their presenting...
20. CHAPTER VII.Monmouth lies embowered among gentle hills, only diversified by wood, corn, and pasture; but to view it either from the Wye, or any of the neighbouring eminences, one would be f...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Page. GOODRICH CASTLE VIGNETTE TITLE. LLANGERRIG 19 RHAIADYR 21 NEAR RHAIADYR 22 CLIFFORD CASTLE 35 HEREFORD 44 ROSS 48 THE NEW WEIR 81 TINTERN 158 TINTERN ABBEY 160 CHEPSTOW 17...
2. CHAPTER II.Descent of Plinlimmon--Singular 17 illusion--Llangerrig--Commencement of the picturesque--The Fall of the Wye--Black Mountain--Course of the river--Builth--Peculiarity of the sc...
9. CHAPTER IX.Raglan Castle--Description of the ruins--History of the 121 Castle--The old lord of Raglan--Surrender of the fortress--Charles I. and his host--Royal weakness--The pigeons of Ra...
10. CHAPTER X.1. CHAPTER I.4. CHAPTER IV.7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.11. CHAPTER XI.12. CHAPTER XII.5. CHAPTER V.3. CHAPTER III.6. CHAPTER VI.