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seen in all its varied and romantic beauty : the 

 striking character of its scenery, abounding with 

 luxuriant verdure, is heightened by contrast with 

 the sterile brow of a lofty mountain which towers 

 above the neighbouring hills, and whose rocky de- 

 clivities are indented by numerous deep fissures, 

 through which, after heavy rains or rapid thaws, 

 the waters rush down in impetuous torrents. 

 Salmon, trout, seivin, fyc. 



ST. BRIDE'S MAJOR, on the Ogmore, near Bridg- 

 end.* Fine salmon fishing. 



* This place holds a distinguished rank in the ancient history 

 of the principality, and is celebrated as having been one of 

 the earliest known residences of its princes. The castle and 

 manor of Dunraven formerly belonged to Sir Arnold Butler ; 

 but on the extinction of the male branches of that family 

 they were conveyed by a daughter in marriage to the family of 

 Vaughan. According to local tradition, confirmed by subse- 

 quent discoveries, the last of the Vaughans who possessed the 

 manor was in the habit of inhumanly setting up decoy lights, 

 to mislead vessels in the Channel, in order to increase his reve- 

 nues by " wrecks de mer," to which, as lord of the manor, he 

 became entitled. Within sight of the house was a rock, dry 

 at low water, to which two of his sons having gone to divert 

 themselves, and neglecting to secure their boat, it floated away, 

 and they were left on the rock until the return of the tide, and 

 perished in sight of the family, who vainly attempted to afford 

 them assistance. During the confusion occasioned in the 

 family by this melancholy event, the third son, a child only 

 just able to walk, fell into a large vessel of whey, and was 

 drowned ; and the proprietor, thus left childless, sold the estate 

 to an ancestor of the late Thomas Wyndham, Esq. of Dun- 

 raven Castle. LEWIS. 



