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got along the upper passes ; then we came to 

 the descent, not unlike the ascent, only the 

 road was narrower just room for one vehicle 

 between the tall banks and hedges ; half-way 

 down we met a wagonette and one horse 

 and there we were. The one-horse man would 

 not go back, and we could not. Not likely 

 that a two-horse chaise should give way to 

 a one-horse chaise! The end of it was that 

 the one-horse man had to take his horse out 

 of the shafts, push back his trap downhill for 

 two or three hundred yards till he came to 

 an open space ; then he took his horse back, 

 and we passed each other in a friendly way. 

 We then came upon a wagon-load of fern. 

 We overcame that and all other difficulties, 

 and at last we reached Llanthony Abbey. 

 I am not going to describe it. 



Llanthony Abbey 



The abbey dates from the days of William 

 Rufus. The ruins are most picturesque, and 

 shut in from the outside world by a circle 

 of mountains, approached by such a route as 

 that which I have slightly described. There 



is a sort of farmhouse restaurant built into 



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