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Mslstance of the public themselves will be of the greatest service, and let the 

 present marked improvement in this river be an encouragement to them, as it is 

 to the conservators. The sea, where all our fish are fattened, has no limit to 

 its capabilities, and the only limit imposed on the production of salmon in this 

 river, and other rivers of England, is the extent of their spawning ground. The 

 Wye with its course of 148 miles in length, and including its tributaries, a water 

 shed of 1,653 square miles of country, is capable of producing vastly more than 

 its present supply— until that is achieved, let no man stay his hand, or think the 

 whole work accomplished. 



But here we are at our journey's end ! " Landrindod Wells " simply, 

 yet conspicuously, printed on the yellow, gravelly bank, with lumps of white 

 felspar from the rocks of the district, was an appropriate geological indication. 

 A picket of observation had been sent out the evening before, so that there was 

 neither doubt nor hesitation in the movements of the little army of science— full 

 fifty hammers strong— as it marched from the station. The direction of the 

 Llanfawr quarries was taken, and we noticed en route the following constituents : 

 There was the President, C. Wren Hoskyns, Esq ; the vice-presidents, the Rev. 

 T. Woodhouse and T. Curiey, Esq.; Edwin Lees, Esq., F.G.S., Worcester; 

 Arthur Armitage, Esq. ; the Eev. Arthur Gray, Orcop ; the Kev. D. P. Capper, 

 Lyston Court; James Eankia, Esq., Bryngwyn ; the Rev. B. L. S. Stanhope, 

 Byford; Captain Pateshall ; the Rev. E. Du Buisson, Breinton ; Courthope 

 Bosanquet, Esq. ; the Rev. John Raven, Harewood ; Rev. C. E. Hornby, Dew- 

 church; John Lloyd, Esq., Huntington Court; the Rev. C. Smith, Tarrington; 

 Henry Dumbleton, Esq., Treholford ; the Rev. E. Dumbleton, Brecon; Dr. Bull 

 and Master Bull; the Rev. F. F. Eeaveley, Kinnersley; Captain Thomas, 

 Llanthomas, and Lieut. Greatorix ; Rev. Wm. Bevan, Hay ; the Rev. H. W. 

 Phillott, Staunton-on- Wye ; Marcellus Newton, Esq., Sugwas ; the Rev. C. J, 

 Robinson, Norton Canon ; the Rev. H. W. Tweed, Bridstow ; Captain Williams, 

 Talgarth ; the Rev. S. Alford, Glasbury ; the Rev. E. J. Owen, Tretire ; the Rev. 

 John Hanbury; T. Fisher, Es^q., Trebandy ; the Rev. J. H. Jukes, Withington; 

 J. Griffith Morris, Esq. ; Rev. J. Williams, Glasbury ; C. Averill, Esq. ; the Rev. 

 T. M. Beavan, Birch; J. E. Smith, Esq., Hay; R. H. P. Styles, Esq.; H. 

 Eldred, Esq., Ross; Dr. Anderson; Rev. T. J. Thiriwall, Nantmel ; E. J. 

 Husband, Esq. ; O. SheUard, Esq. ; Rev. H. Bevan ; Messrs. D. Griffiths, James 

 Lloyd, John Pitt, T. Smith, and Arthur Thompson. 



The Llanfawr quarries are not above five minutes' walk from the station, 

 and there the whole party proceeded, under the close observation of some 

 small bodies of the residents. These quanies are the source of most of the 

 buUding stone and road material of the district. A large mass of trap rock, or 

 greenstone, has been thrown up by volcanic action through the Llandeilo flags 

 in a molten state, and the intense heat produced has completely baked and 

 altered the adjacent rocks. The enormous power exerted has thrown the strata 

 of the Llandeilo flag in different diiections, a large portion taking the most 

 general dip of the common towards the west at an angle of about 40°, and 



