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and visited some of the most beautiful, wild, and terrific scenery 
im Wales; and considering the advanced period of the season, 
collected a considerable number of rare or otherwise interesting 
plants. We were in London about four o’clock of the same day 
on which we left North Wales. The most interesting and con- 
spicuous objects about Llangollen, next to the scenery, which 
arrest the tourist’s attention are, the ancient British fortification 
or Castle of Dinas Bran, and the remains of the Abbey Vallis 
Crucis, the Vale of the Cross. The former object, viz. Dinas 
Bran, is on the very summit of an isolated conical hill, which 
rises sugar-loaf-like to the altitude of near 2000 feet. The re- 
mains of this ancient building are still considerable, and the top 
of the mountain is well supplied with water. Northward of this 
hill, and lower down the vale, there are the mountains of Eglwyseg, 
of a very remarkable aspect. The upper part of these are broken 
into four or five deep, perpendicular cliffs, ranged one above 
another like a series of parallel terraces. These precipices ex- 
tend along the mountain for some distance. The ruins of the 
Abbey are about two miles from Llangollen, on the road to 
Ruthin. They are situated in the centre of a small rich mea- 
dow, and are of considerable extent. The remains sufficiently 
attest the great architectural beauty and former magnificence of 
this once sacred edifice. We should enjoy a fortnight’s bota- 
nizing about Llangollen, and we should prefer the month of 
July for this excursion. In deference to such of our readers as 
may think that there has been “ much cry and little wool, as the 
clown said when he sheared the pig,” we beg to remind such, in 
our justification, that we did not go a-herborizing, but to get 
fresh air, change of scene, and exercise. All these we enjoyed to 
our entire satisfaction. We noticed the rare plants in our way, 
but we never went out of our way to look for them. From what 
we saw of the botany of Wales, we think, as we believe we have 
formerly intimated, that it would be a promising field for a young 
and ardent botanist, who possessed the requisite knowledge, and 
the means for exploring it. We think that the labour would 
overtax the physical powers of men somewhat past the middle 
term of life. We should like to see a complete list of the plants 
of the Principality, or of the vegetation of North Wales in par- 
ticular, and we should like it all the more if it contained the Welsh 
or ancient British popular names. The Botanology of Davies 
