110 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



TINTERN ABBEY AND THE WYE. ENGLISH SCREW-STEAMERS. TIDE DEL 

 UGE. ST. VINCENT S ROCKS. BRISTOL-BUILT VESSELS. THE VALE OF 



GLOUCESTER. WHITPLELD &quot; EXAMPLE FARM.&quot; HKDGE-ROW TIMBER. 



DRAINAGE. BUILDINGS. STOCK. SOILING. MANURE. WHEAT. BEETS 



AND TURNIPS. DISGRACEFUL AGRICULTURE. THF, LANDED GENTRY. 

 WAGES OK LABOURERS. 



E have had a fierce storm of wind and rain to-day, not 

 withstanding which we have done (I am sorry to use the 

 word) Tintern Abbey and the celebrated scenery of the Wye. 



The first every body has heard of, and many have dined 

 off it ; for it is the subject of a common crockery picture. It 

 is &quot; a grand exhibition of Gothic ruins, admittance twenty- 

 five cents ; children, half-price.&quot; It is indeed exceedingly 

 beautiful and interesting, and would be most delightful to 

 visit, if one could stumble into it alone and contemplate it in 

 silence ; but to have a vulgar, sycophantic, parrot-chattering 

 showman locking himself in with you, fastening himself to 

 your elbow, holding an umbrella over you, and insisting upon 

 exactly when, where, what, and how much you shall admire, 

 there was more poetry on the dinner-plate. 



The scenery of the Wye has, at some points, much grand 

 eur. They say there is nothing else like it in England. 

 There is a great deal, with the same character, however, in 

 America ; and as we were familiar with scenes of even much 



