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CHAP. IX. 



Newtown to Montgomery. 



F'Uiv near Abermuk. — Montgomery. — Church. — Htflory of the 

 Town. — Montgomery Cajlle. — Sketch of Its Htflory.— - Rural 

 Scene.— Leland's Defcrlpiton of the Totun. — The Cuchlng Stooly 

 formerly in ufe here. — Memoranda of Lord Herbert of Chirbury. 



From Newtown I had a fine ci^ltivated country all 

 the way to Montgomery. The infant Severn ac- 

 companies the road nearly half the way, in fome 

 places approaching, and in others bending from it, 

 and hidden by intervening trees and hedges. 



The few houfes at Abermule, The Coriflux of the 

 River Mule, about five miles from Newtown, were 

 delightfully fituated on the bank of the Severn, fur* 

 rounded by hills, and decorated by woods, in all the 

 luxuriance of foliage. From hence the road gently 

 afcends, and from the eminence a view fo extenfive 

 and beautiful burfts on the fight, as to defy the 

 utmoft expreffion of the pencil to reprefent it. A 

 vale in high cultivation is feen to extend for feveral 

 miles, the Severn appearing in different parts from 

 among the trees and meadows : The whole fcene 

 was bounded by difi:ant hills. The defcent continues 

 ftill beautiful j and, near the town of Montgomery, 



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