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SEPTEMBER 4, 1875.] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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magnificent groups of Eupato rium cannabin 
Lythrum Salicaria which lined the hedges - e 
tis, and the Hart's-tongue Ferns on the banks, 
which we may Iu return, was sketched, and a 
visit made to the Priory and ‘“ Nun’ s Walk ; ? the 
Nun's Walk has "this year been plant ted with Leeks 
and Potatos (the latter all diseased, Быз haulms flat 
and m a eh a be e sets we 
en; one of 
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ing-stone is p ve great pre- 
n rag in 
length, were visited and 
€— mear Nant-y- “Санай абаа Р measured, 
t -e of five 
echs (cr beim in an i Los 
Ds pics 79 oy 74 pow one way аа, 50 feet or 
60 other. Near spot is a great and 
unmistakable circular British camp. One of t 
cromlechs, specimens as opi d are of prehistoric rock- 
work, Mg = dave ес ed in fig. 64. "These ancien 
stones, antiquities at the time of the 
hich w 
Roman Conquest 1 probably m mark the graves of — 
tains bel 
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th ernoon various inscribed Romano-British 
stones were visited and sketched, and, whilst << pe 
t 
of the y return Car , Professor an 
Mrs twood, Pro rH of Cambeldee), 
БК Rhys (the philologist), “the writer of these 
few , mad > (bothered by 
horsz fies) С Merthyr Мопасһ to see а famous in- 
The diver did not know his way, so Merthyr 
Monach was only found by aid of the Ordnance 
maps and th We found the stone, but 
lost our dinner, and returned footsore to 
at e int ; e ootsore be- 
cause the wretched screws of horses would not, or 
could not, get up and down the hills, and we were 
— obliged to walk—our only consolation 
being in Epipactis latifolia in the hedge sides, The 
ancient Welsh pus ways carried their over 
the hills It has never struck them that it is no 
further to go round a hill than to go o 
FIG, 64.—PREHISTORIC ROCKWORK WITH WILD PLANTS. 
cromlech of this year's mE wás met 
vaa the huge сај 
omlech Ww the name of Meini 
ee (he grey stones), ar ait the poorer 
regard all such structures itious reverence. 
On asking а Welsh peut oa the as to who 
placed the stones in position, he replied, “ No one in 
; known in P. 
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distant that it is 
un 
ala seri ehe. to the Upper Cam- 
brian of Sedgwick, which is the same with the Lo 
Silurian of Mur and the upper huge stone is 
ІІ feet in ё ese grand and im ruc- 
th lichens, whilst the ices 
give shelter to innumerable ewer Aa Foxgloves 
ere 
oach ones à 
ia were some ‚ that it appears like 
ELI rs” at Ystrad; | monuments, Yet these structures 
the latter were 5 feet high and covered with lichens, | ber every year; they are mei ёл 
one (being in a damp place alge, as | roa — - - destro mm на 
well as small plan and rive back | chief. Some tar inet рейс ШШ 
pe n the air was heavy with the delicious | than ме - above illustrated, and as ae a ae 
fragrance "d | be mo 
Lowe М the - Meadow-sweet a | worthy of consideration whether eme wb these 
гел i eoi "s mck garden ad parks Defers 
ii нА continued from the day before, 
ancient historical in one of the streets, to 
нда ало тт to attach ahy | 
builders. of a 
nnum- | and other inscribed s 
are blasted and дла up for | British stone, 
a sacred 
of the s the ‘attention of Eng 
be good for the і 
ү been) 
| pil e inscription runs, MAVOC 
| *LVNARH# *COCC м a 
| * cocci), ** Mav son 
| Not this church there is, at brallan, 
a huge ruin v a z -— | 
and broken; one e uprig jes measures 
64 inches in being sketched 
