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MEETING AT LLANDRINDOD, 

 June 28th, 1867. 



On Fritlay, the Woolhope Club paid a visit to Llandrindod. Th« 

 morning was dull and overhanging and a shower of rain fell here and there. 

 The barometer, however, was too high to expect much rain, and there was » 

 full attendance of members. 



The Club met at the Barton station and elected the following gentlemen 

 ■8 new members :— J. H. Arkwright, Esq., Hampton Court; the Rev. E. J. 

 Owen, Tretire ; the Kev. Edw. Palin, Linton ; Mr. James Pitt, Freetown ; and 

 the Rev. W. P. S. Stanhope, Holm Lacey ; and, having transacted the ordinary 

 business, set off by the 9.45 train, receiving an accession to their ranks at nearly 

 every station. By the kind co-operation of Messrs. Henshaw, Broughton, and 

 Bishop, the managers of the several lines of railway, they were enabled to reach 

 Llandrindod by mid-day. 



Leaving the train to make its journey, we will take the opportunity of 

 saying a few words about that pride of Herefordshire, aye, of England, the 

 fair river Wye, and her salmon produce and prospects. Who does not call to 

 mind old Michael Drayton's picture of the wood nymphs, rushing forth in haste 

 with uncombed locks, to see the wedding between the lovely Lug and princely 

 Wye ; and whether we read the pages of Ireland, Gilpin, Roscoe, or even more 

 modem writers, we find everywhere a tribute paid to its exceeding beauty ! 

 Shall we be dumb in its praise ? The spii-it of the age, seeking to make aU rivers 

 pure and untainted by pollution, unfettered by mill-weirs, and productive of a 

 vast supply of fish, bids us take a notice of it we have never done before ; and 

 is it not a labour of love, as well as a duty, that we owe it ? The mountains, 

 with their iron rocks, the kings of the universe, and the lovely valleys lying at 

 their feet, have long been our study ; but do we not owe a great deal of this 

 formation of mountain and valley to the action of rivers ? Those deep ravine* 

 formed by floods, where the strata of the rocks, denuded of covering, are laid 



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