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Of those among the mountains, the most remark- 

 able is, Llyn Vawr, below the lofty Peak of Pen- 

 craig. It has plenty of fish, and prodigious quanti- 

 ties of wild fowl. 



CARMARTHENSHIRE. 



" Grongar ! in whose silent shade, 

 For the modest Muses made, 

 So oft I have, the evening still, 

 At the fountain of a rill, 

 Sat upon a flowery bed, 

 With my hand beneath my head; 

 While stray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, 

 Over mead and over wood, 

 From house to house, from hill to hill, 

 Till Contemplation had her fill." Grongar Hill. 



THE principal rivers are the Twyi, or Towy ; the 

 Taf, or Tave ; the Llychwyr, or .Loughor ; the 

 Teivi ; and the Gwendraeth Vawr and Gwendraeth 

 Vach, or greater and lesser Gwendraeth ; there are, 

 besides, numerous smaller streams. 



THE TOWY, 



The largest and most important river in South 

 Wales, rises in the wildest part of Cardigan, be- 

 tween Strata Florida and the borders of Breck- 

 nock. After a southerly course of ten miles, it 

 enters Carmarthenshire, near Ystrad Florida, and 

 pursues the same direction through a romantic 

 valle}' for about eight miles further, to Llandovery, 

 where the mountains recede on either side, leaving, 

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