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CHAP. VIII. 



Llanydloes to Newtown. 



P^'ieiv of the Country. — Anecdote of Edtvard Herbert, Efq — Ne'W- 

 tcivn. — Catarad. — Cajlell Doforiuyn. — Hi/lory of this Fortrefs. 

 •—The Story of Salrina, and the Origin of the Severn. 



On my leaving Llanydloes, I foon began to find 

 myfelf in a kind of country that plainly indicated 

 an approach towards England. The road winds 

 along a vale much flatter, and more highly culti- 

 vated, than any in the interior of Wales. I faw 

 here feveral fields both of rye and wheat, two fpecies 

 of corn feldom erown in mountainous countries : 

 the winds and llorms -are there fo violent, that they 

 would fliake out the grain from the ears before it 

 could ripen. — I now wandered 



On the gCMtle Severn's fedgy bank. 



The river was here but a few yards acrofs, and it 

 glided filentiy and fmoothly along, reflefting brightly 

 the green impel) ding foliage of its banks. 



Fields, lawns, lillls, vallics, paftures^ all appear 

 Clad ill the varied beauties of the year. 

 Meand'ring waters, waving woods ate feen 

 And cattle fcatter'd in each diitant green. 

 The curling fmoke, from cottages afcerds, 

 There towers the hill^ and there the valley bends. 



I paffed 



