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rapid ftream winds along the valley, fonn a fcene 

 by no means inelegant. 



Plas Newydd. 



About a quarter of a mile fouth of Llangollen is 

 Plas Newydd, the charming retreat of lady Eleanor 

 Butler and Mifs Ponionby, which, however, has of 

 late years been probably too much intruded upon 

 by the curiofity of the multitudes of tourids who 

 every fummer vifit Llangollen. Lady Eleanor But- 

 ler was, I am informed, the youngell filler of the 

 late, and is confequently aunt to the prefent earl of 

 Ormond. — Mifs Ponfonby is the grand-daughter of 

 general Ponfonby, who was (lain in the battle of 

 Fontenoy. Her father, Mr. Chambre Ponfonby, 

 married Mifs Louifa Lyons, a mod elegant and ac- 

 complifhed woman, the fecond daughter of captain 

 John Lyons, clerk of the council in Dublin. This 

 lady lived but a few years after her marriage, and 

 left the prefent Mifs Ponfonby, her only child. — 

 Thefe two females, delighted with the Ibenery around 

 Llano'ollen, when it v/as little known to the i"elt 

 of the world, fought here a philofophical retirement 

 from the frivolties of falhionable life, creeled a dwel- 

 ling that commands a fine mountain profpcfl, anJ 

 have refided here ever fmce. 



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