A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 4! 



this ftream, furrounded with that ro- 

 mantic beauty in which it is exceeded by 

 very few rivers in the kingdom. 



Thisfcene was interefling, but a little 

 further on, at a bridge, over which the 

 road led me, called the New Bridge, it 

 was much exceeded in beauty by another 

 view up the river. Out of the road, 

 about a hundred yards above the bridge, 

 fuch a fcene was prefented to me, that 

 had I poflefled the pencil of a Claude, I 

 could have painted one of the moft ex- 



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quifite landfcapes the eye ever beheld. 

 The river here darted along it's rugged 

 bed, and it's rocky banks clad with wood, 

 where every varied tint that autumn 

 could afford added to their effect, caft a 

 darkening fhade upon the ftream. With 

 the green oak, all the different hues of 

 the am, the elm and the hazel were in- 

 termingled. Above the bridge arofe a 

 few cottages furrounded with foliage. 



The 



