Soon after leaving thia sacred spot we again halted in front of the pretty 

 residence of A. Swinburne, Esq., where that gentleman read an able paper on 

 " The application of science to the improvement of manufactures," in which he 

 described in popular terms the old and new methods of making glass, and the 

 great improvements science had of late years effected in the manufacture of that 

 materiaL His subject was illustrated by beautiful specimens of modem glass. 



We shortly afterwards reassembled at Hay, where we partook of a dinner, 

 which did credit to the catering of our host of the " Rose and Crown," and then 

 a paper by A. Cheese, Esq., of Hay, was read, entitled "Historical notices of the 

 district," which described the rise and fall of the Cwmry tribes in this country. 



At the close of the meeting a paper by J. G. Smith, Esq., of Hay, on " The 

 Cusop dingle as a valley of denudation," was, owing to the lateness of the hour, 

 "taken as read." The tyro in geology sometimes feels a difficulty in determining 

 which appearances in the present configuration of the earth's surface are due to 

 upheavals, and which to the effects of atmospheric forces. In Mr. Smith's opinion, 

 the formation of Cusop valley is clearly due to the latter causes ; and the con- 

 tinued deepening of the dingle at the bottom of it is effected by the Dulas stream — 

 that feeble representative of the ancient mountain torrent of the district — which 

 still plays its part in lowering the bed of its rocky channeL 



The botanical specimens of interest met with during the day were the Bear* 

 garlic. Allium ursinum, the yellow violet, Viola hitea, the globe flower, Trolliu* 

 Europeus, the water avens, Geum rimle, and the mountain fern, Lastreaoreopteri*. 



Our next meeting took place on the 27th of June, at Aberedw ; it wa« 

 the Ladies' meeting^ and many of our fair friends left "their silken thread and 

 flowery tapestry," resolved " to forget the world, its cares, and guilt, and pas- 

 sions, and live the day in sunshine and in beauty." "We left Hereford at the 

 Brecon station, and took the line to Aberedw, where we were met by Robert 

 Baskerville Mynors, Esq., and the Rev, Henry Dew, who kindly undertook to be 

 our leaders for the day. 



First, we visited Aberedw churchyard, and examined the grand old yew trees, 

 the largest of which measured 25 feet in girth, and so rather exceeds that of the 

 great tree in Cusop churchyard. I believe the largest yew tree in this county is 

 at Petercburcb, which measures 28 feet in circumference, but it is partially hollow 

 and much weather beaten ; while that at Aberedw is, to all appearance, a sound 

 and sturdy tree and may live another thousand years, when we hope some active 

 member of the Woolhope Club will again record its measurement. 



Many of you are probably aware that the yew is not considered by Bentham 

 and some other botanists to be a native of this country; Camden, however, has 

 described it as such, and has placed it in the list offerees be consi lered indigeouous 

 to the mountains of Herefordshire. Those fine specimens of the tree which stand 

 at the four angles of the church at Cusop, Leiuthall, and Aberedw, are looked 

 upon by many members of our Club as examples of where the yew has been brought 



