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bridge, about two miles from the town, is a genteel 

 farm-house, close to which flows a beautiful and 

 well-stocked trout stream. 



The Clywedog, another fine trout and grayling 

 river , joins the Severn near this town. 



LLANWDDYN, twelve miles from Llanvyllin, a 

 beautiful village on the Owddyn, a tributary of the 

 Vyrnwy Abundance of salmon, trout, grayling, fyc. 



MEIVOD (the " lowly champaign dwelling"), five 

 miles from Llanvair, on the Vyrnwy, formed by the 

 union of the Banwy and the Avon Llanwddyn, 

 which meet at this place, where it first begins to 

 expand its waters, that, previously to their entering 

 the valley, were confined by the depth of the banks 

 and the rapidity of the current : from this circum- 

 stance it derived its original name, Evyrnwy, or 

 the " spreading river," now written Vyrnwy. In 

 this neighbourhood are two other streams, the 

 Brogan and the Colwyn, This is an excellent fish- 

 ing station. 



LLANGYNIEW, two miles and a half from Llanvair 

 Caereinion. This place, situated on the bank of the 

 river Banwy, no great distance from its junction with 

 the other branch of the Vyrnwy, is at the western 

 extremity of the Vale of Meivod. The Oweddyn 

 also joins the Banwy, a little below Mathraval. 

 These tributaries of the Vyrnwy still retain their 

 ancient celebrity for salmon, trout, grayling, &c., 

 which obtained for them the appellation of piscosi 

 amnes. On the Banwy is a beautiful waterfall, near 

 Dolaney Bridge. 



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