RIVERS. 11 



the Bristol channel; expanding and insensibly 

 losing itself in the Atlantic ocean, between the 

 Land's end of Cornwall and the extreme point 

 of Pembrokeshire. 



THE WYE, though not the largest, may 

 certainly be called the most beautiful of the 

 rivers of South Wales ; it rises on the south side 

 of Plinlimmon hill, on the borders of Montgo- 

 meryshire and Cardiganshire, being rather to 

 the south of the source of the Severn. In its 

 course it inclines gradually to the east, and 

 separates Brecknockshire from Radnorshire : 

 when past the Black Mountain it flows east- 

 ward to Hereford, Ross, and Monmouth ; from 

 whence it proceeds south till it unites itself with 

 the Severn below Chepstow, thus forming part 

 of the Bristol Channel. 



THE TRENT is a river which pervades some 

 of the most fertile districts in the kingdom ; it 

 rises in the hill near Newcastle-under-Line, in 

 Staffordshire, adjoining to the borders of Che- 

 shire. In its course it divides Leicestershire 

 from Derbyshire, and penetrates through the 

 centre of Nottinghamshire ; at length it reaches 

 the borders of Yorkshire, and a few miles from 

 Gainsborough it joins with the aestuary of the 

 Northern Ouse to form the turbulent river 

 Humber. 



"Art thou the Trent, whose name it has been said, 

 "Implies thou art by thirty rivers fed I" 



