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ing in broken torrents, which glitter in the open 

 sunshine ; or anon lingering under the deep 

 shadows of an overhanging wood, and seeming 

 to delight in reflecting the mazy depths of foliage, 

 ere yet it glides onwards. 



In short, it skills not attempting with pen and 

 ink to paint the beauties and varieties of a fly- 

 fishing river, such as the Dee has here become. 

 From hence, through the silent shadowy park of 

 Wynnstay past the foaming rocky rapids of 

 Llangollen along the course of that beautiful 

 valley, from the darkness of whose overhanging 

 cliffs has been derived the name of the river* 

 up to the very lake Tegid, from which it issues, 

 and through whose broad expanse of waters, by 

 a fabled license, it is supposed to find its way 

 unmingled, the "Sacred Dee" presents a series 

 of beauties and charms, such as the ardent lover 

 and frequenter of romantic scenery may well 

 imagine ; which would indeed delight the artist 

 for months, but which wholly set at defiance the 

 pen of the writer. 



The fly-fisher, if he were with us in reality, 

 instead of accompanying us imagination, would 

 we suspect be apt to run restive, and putting his 

 four joint rod together, would tell us very politely 



* Dim (pronounced Dee) black : Glyn-dwr-dhu, the 

 valley of black water." 



