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Llandinani Montgomeryshire. . 1,898 



Plinliinmon Cardiganshire 2,463 



Cader Idri3 Merionethshire 2,914 



ArranFowddy Ditto 2,955 



Arrenig Ditto 2,809 



Snowdon Ditto 3,571 



Cym-y-Brain Denbighshire 1,857 



Titterstone Clee Shropshire 1,754 



Brown Clee Ditto 1,806 * 



Stiperstones Ditto 1,650 



Wrekin Ditto 1,320 



The wind was much too cold at the Pole to remain long there ; and having 

 transacted the ordinary business of the "Woolhope Club, electing the following 

 gentlemen as members : the Kev. Robert Bamford, of Little Dewchurch, Colonel 

 Bridgwater, Coity Mawr, the Kev, G. H. Clay, Kington, and Dr. George, of 

 Much Birch, a move was made to a spot on the southern side of the brow of 

 the hill. The members here stretched themselves at length in a picturesque 

 cluster on the heather, and protected by it from the wind rested and listened with 

 much gratification to a lecture " Ox the Geology of the Longhynds," by 

 the Rev. J. D. La Touche ; to a very interesting account of some original 

 " Observations on a "Wasp Parasite," by Dr. T. Algernon Chapman, very 

 eloquently given vied voce by Elmes Y. Steele, Esq. ; and also to a paper " On 

 the Beech Tree in Herefordshire," by the Rev. T. "Woedhouse, which created 

 some little discussion. 



The Pole was again visited, and the several hills kindly pointed out by Mr. 

 La Touche to such members as only arrived there then for the first time. 

 The road for Church Stretton by the Manor Hill was then taken. Very 

 few visited the Battery, as they ought to have done, and the Oakham Dingle 

 itself was very nearly omitted by accident. Greatly, however, to the relief of 

 Mr. Cocking, who had so kindly provided the excellent route laid down in the 

 programme, the mistake was discovered in time, and many were able to rectify 

 it by passing down the steep side of the hill, and so enjoyed once more the ever 

 varying scenery of a deep Longmynd dingle. 



Near the bottom of the Oakham Dingle is the ""Wishing Well," or the 

 "Bishops' Well," as it has lately become the fashion to call it, from several 

 Bishops having drank from its pure waters. It seems to want a legend, and 

 certainly the water has in itself the merit of purity and excellence, though it 

 may not perhaps promote all curates who drink of it to the Episcopal bench. 



The way then led through the pretty rectory grounds, where the dingle is 

 thickly wooded. Here the botanists were called upon to name an ill -smelling plant 

 whose leaves had taken possession of a considerable patch of shady soil to the 

 exclusion of everything else. It proved to be the Heart-leaved "Valerian, 



