LLANYDLOES TO NEWTOWN. 6l - 



journal of my friend, quoted in the lafl: chapter, 

 contains the following memorandum refped:ing the 

 church. " This building has a fcreen, faid to 

 have been brought from fome neighbouring abbey. 

 It may be antique, but its gilded ornaments ren- 

 dered it very unfightly. There is alfo here a fmall 

 altar piece, faid to have been painted by Dyer the 

 poet. The fubjeft is the lafl fupper, but it is in part 

 a copy from Pouffin, and is bad." 



A glen about a mile from the town, on the right 

 of the road leading to Builth, was pointed out to me 

 as containing a cataracf, and fome beautiful fcenery. 

 I was, however, greatly difappointed in finding thefe 

 fcarcely worth notice. The face of the rock had 

 much the appearance of a fliattered wall, thrown 

 nflaunt by one end finking into the ground. The 

 water- fcarcely trickled down it, and if I might 

 judge from the muddy pool at the foot, it very 

 feldom defcended in quantity fufficient to entitle the 

 fcene to the appellation of a cataraft. 



Returning to Newtown, I croffed the river, and 

 walked along its banks about three miles and a 

 half to 



Castell Dolforwyn, 



The Cajile of the Vh-ghi^s Meadoiv. The remains of 

 this fortrefs are to be found on a lofty hill, on the 

 north-weft bank of the Severn, a fituation that com- 

 mands the whole of the adjacent country. From 

 hence I had a lovely and extenfive profped of the 



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