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holsteiy which provides bed and board for travellers in the centre 

 of the ruins were grateful after the heat and fatigues of the day, 

 and the members again shook down into the break (which from 

 its form and narrow dimensions some vnt said must have once 

 been used to convey paupers to their last home), and returned in 

 what ought to have been the cool of the evening to the Angel 

 Hotel at Abergavenny. After some little confusion and a little 

 pertness from one of the young ladies connected with the hotel, 

 the ci-\dl and obliging landlord settled the party comfortably into 

 their night's quarters, gave them an excellent dinner and a break- 

 fast to correspond the next morning, and finally sent them away 

 happy and contented to Itaglan Castle. The Secretary, howeA'er, 

 and another member, who feared not the fierce rays of a glowing 

 sun, were anxious to examine the geological structure of the 

 neighbourhood, and for this purpose left the main body and 

 started for the Sugarloaf. After driving so far as practicable, the 

 carriage was left on the slopes of the Berri, and foUoAving a clear- 

 ing through the woods, they soon emerged on to the sloping sides 

 of the Sugarloaf. After about an hour's steady walk through 

 larch and stunted oak, over ling and bright green whortleberry 

 bushes and a final burst up the steep sides of the " loaf," they 

 reached the top (1,852 feet) to find not a conical peak as they 

 expected but a ridge some 300 yards in length, extending N.W. 

 and S.E. A very fine view of the surrounding country was 

 obtained, the vale of Usk with Abergavenny in the centre ; the 

 fine range of the Blorenge with the smoke of Blaenavon appear- 

 ing over its shoulders ; the valley extending up to Crickliowell, 

 the range of the Black Mountains to the N., and the Holy 

 Mountain or Skirrid F&wv to the E. The N.E. point terminates 

 in a wall of yellow mottled sandstones (the upper beds of the 

 Old Red) broken up and fissured ; and suppljang by the loosen- 

 ing and denuding action of winter frosts and rain and summer 

 sun, a mass of tumbled blocks forming a talus on each side, 

 reminding one very much of the Stiperstoues in Slu-upshiro. As 



