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which are all fishable, and several of them yield no 

 small portion of sport, especially to the worm-fisher. 

 When the Towy reaches Llandovery, it receives the 

 waters of the Braen and Qvydderig, in which there is 

 good trouting,- both with the fly and by trolling. As 

 the main river winds its course through the mountain 

 defiles, the eye of the tourist will fall upon many spots 

 of great beauty and sublimity. He may, perchance, see 

 the glen — called by the Welsh Cwm — of an awful 

 depth, whose edges and rugged descents are luxuriantly 

 clothed with fine timber, that starts with a kind of wild 

 disorder from the crevices of the rocks, where a scanty 

 covering of soil has afforded it sufficient nourishment. 

 This wooded tissue spreads its expansive branches over 

 the chasm, and casts a sullen, dark, and dismal gloom 

 upon the recess below. It is in vain that the eye 

 attempts to trace out the current of the stream with any 

 degree of distinctness ; it raves and howls among the 

 rocks at the bottom, but cannot be recognised. At 

 every step its ceaseless repercussions swell more loudly 

 upon the ear, still its waters are hidden ; the thickets 

 overspread them, save only at some faint openings where 

 their whitened foam emerges for a moment to the open 

 day, and then passes on and is lost ; shrinking in 

 hollow tumult among the rocks and trees that lie 

 scattered in the depths of the terrific chasm. Such 

 scenes as these are constantly to be met with in this 

 land of wilds and mountains. 



The river Tave takes its origin from Pembrokeshire, 

 in a district east of the Percelly Mountain. Its banks 

 in many places are most beautifully wooded. It receives 

 several tributary waters, and when it reaches the 

 picturesque village of St. Clears it is augmented by the 

 streams of the Gafhgenny and Coioin, which spring out 

 of the mountainous grounds in the north of the comity. 

 There is good trout-fishing here at all seasons when fish 

 of any kind can be taken by the rod. The main river 

 is navigable to St. Clears, and flows into Caermarthen 

 Bay, a little below the town of Langharne, after running 

 a course of twenty-eight miles. 



