il8 OSWESTRY TO R.UABON. 



banks clad with wood, where every varied tint that 

 autumn could afford added to their effed, cafb a 

 darkening fhade upon the ftream. With the green 

 oak, all the different hues of the afh, the elm, and 

 the hazel, were intermingled. Above the bridge 

 arofe a few cottages furrounded with foliage. The 

 evening v/as calm, and the fmoke, tinged by the 

 fetting fun, defcendcd upon the vale, whilfl the 

 diftant mountains v.'cre brightened by his beams 

 into a fine purple. I fat dov,'n on the bank of the 

 river, and contemplated thcfe beauties till the de- 

 clining fun had funk beneath the horizon, and twi- 

 light had begun to ileal over the landfcape, and 

 blend into one every different fhade of reflection, 

 and to cover the whole face of nature with its fober 

 grey. — ^^I forced myfelf away, and purfued my jcur-. 

 ney to Ruabon, my intended refidence for the 

 night. 



Ruabon 



Is a village pleafmgly fituated on a rifing ground, 

 and has around it the refidences of feveral perfons 

 of fortune. I fpent tVv^o or three days very agreeably 

 ill this place, and in little excurflons around the 

 neighbourhood. 



The church is a good building : it contains an or- 

 gan, an inilrument very unufual in Welfn churches, 

 which was given by the late fir Watkin WiUIams 

 Wynne. — At its eall end I obferved a table monu- 

 ment of marble, with the date of 1526, in memory 



of 



