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Eardisley a stronger party was found on the platform, consisting of R. Banks, 

 Esq., of Kington ; R. W. Banks and Mrs. Banks, Ridgebourne ; the Rev. James 

 Davies, Sliss Davies, Miss Mary H. Davies, Moorcom-t ; Miss Dimmock, Stoke- 

 upon-Trent ; and Mr. Lloyd, Kington. At Talgarth— Wm. Banks, Esq., F.S.A., 

 and Mrs. Banks, of Pont-y-wal HaU ; Miss Morgan and Miss Annie Morgan, 

 BronUys Castle ; the Rev. J. Bowen, Mr. "Wm. Bowen, and Mr. John Bowen, 

 Llangorse ; J. Iilortimer, Bowen, Esq., Miss Bowen, Chancefield ; and Mrs. EUis 

 Jones, Donnington, Wroxeter. 



But it was at Brecon that the strongest reinforcement was met with. 

 Here Dr. M'Cullough, the president, joined the club, with Miss M'CuUough, 

 Miss Isabella Steele, and Miss Bertha Steele, from Abergavenny; Ldlbum 

 Bosher, Esq., Trewyn, and Dr. YeUowlees, Bridgend. Here, too, came the 

 Eev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S., the lecturer for the day, with Miss Symonds, 

 Pendock ; Miss Mary Sjinonds, Broomyhill ; Edward Stone, Esq., Miss Stone, 

 and Miss Lennard, Chambers Court, Upton-on-Severn ; Dr. Lucas and Mrs. 

 Lucas, the Bulwark, Brecon ; D. J. W. Thomas, Esq., Mrs., and Miss Thomas, 

 The Watton; John North, Esq. ; George Overton, Esq., "Watton Mount; Dr. 

 Talfourd Jones ; Jas. Williams, Esq., Rev. Charles Griffith, Glyncelyn ; Joseph 

 Josephs, Esq., Brecon ; H. St. George Caulfield, Esq., Ely-place ; Alfred Henshaw, 

 Esq. ; Mrs. Eroughton, Miss and the Misses Alice, Annie, Mary, Jessie, and 

 Kate Broughton, Llandefaelog ; Miss Filcock and Miss Kkklaud ; E. C. Phillips, 

 Esq., Fennifach ; James Buckley, Esq., Llanelly ; James Morgan, Esq., Neath; 

 and Thomas Morley, Esq., Neath. 



By the kind arrangements of the railway authorities the same carriages 

 were carried on by the special train, and after that series of shunting and 

 re-shunting, and backward and forward movements, which seem so perplexingly 

 unnecessary to those whose anxiety is only to get on, the train at last set off. 

 At the private station of Abercamlais, John Lloyd, Esq., of the Central Com- 

 mittee, was taken up, with the following ladies and gentlemen : — Rev. Fenton 

 Hort and Mrs. Fenton Hort, Glanwysk ; Mrs. G. WiUiams, Misses "Williams, and 

 Master Williams, Abercamlais ; liliss Williams and Bliss K. WilUams, Llandaff ; 

 and lastly, at Penwjdlt, W. Price, Esq., of Glan Twrch, with Miss Price and Miss 

 Dora Price ; and the Rev. Thos. Walters, the rector of the parish of Ystrad- 

 gyulais, to which our day's visit was appropriated. 



Never, probably, was the platform of Penwyllt station so brilliantly 

 crowded ; and though there was some little delay there, the station wall 

 itseK afforded some natui-al objects of great interest. It was coped 

 with tall stones whose long rounded forms and open cavities made them 

 seem like the bones of some gigantic animals, but they were really masses of 

 mountain limestone, snow-worn and water-worn, which had been brought from 

 the neighbouring hills, and on examining them closely there were numerous 

 shells and corals which had also been worn even with the stone in which they 

 were imbedded. It was said that there are immense masses of the same lime- 



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