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coch y bondy, the iron blue, the pale blue, and the 

 wren's tail. 



LLANRHAIADR YN MOCHANT, twelve miles from 

 Oswestry, on the river Moch, or " Rapid," which 

 here separates the counties of Denbigh and 

 Montgomery, and, at the distance of four miles 

 from the village, forms the much admired water- 

 fall of Pistyll Rhaiadr, which renders this 

 place, during the summer months, the resort of 

 numerous visiters. The perpendicular height of 

 this fall is 240 feet, and the scenery around it, 

 though in some places sterile and destitute of 

 wood, is strikingly grand. The river, flowing 

 through a narrow valley, terminating in a pre- 

 cipitous declivity of the Berwyn Mountains, after 

 gliding over a shelving rock for a short distance, 

 precipitates itself, with great noise and velocity, 

 down a steep descent of more than 150 feet, and, 

 being interrupted in its fall by a projecting mass of 

 rock, through which it has worn a channel, forms a 

 second fall to the base of the mountain, beneath a 

 lofty arch, from Pystill Rhaider. The river Mole 

 pursues its course through the village into the 

 Tannat, a large stream descending from the hills 



of Llangollen are distinguished by the neatness peculiar to 

 England." Madame de Genlis. 



" Lady Emily Butler, the friend and companion of Miss 

 Ponsonby, the sister of the celebrated speaker of the Irish 

 parliament, died at Plas Newydd, near Llangollen, on the 

 2d June, 1829. Her loss will be severely felt by the sur- 

 rounding poor." Cambrian Mag. 



