RIVERS AND LAKES OF WALES 221 



The stream called the Great GwendraetU is about 

 fifteen miles in length : it springs out of the hilly 

 districts which divide the county from Glamorganshire. 

 There is fair sport — not of first-rate character — in this 

 water at particular seasons of the year. 



What are called the Black Mountaias give rise to the 

 Llougher. It is a rapid stream, and has several feeders, 

 in which there are numbers of small and rather poor 

 trout. It has a course of thirty miles, and falls into the 

 Bay of Caermarthen. 



The Llynvan LaJm is a place of repute : it is situated 

 at the base of the loftiest section of the Black Mountain, 

 designated the Van, or Beacon. This sheet of water is 

 about a mile in length, and has fine trout and a large 

 quantity of eels. The scenery about its margins is 

 solitary, naked, and dreary, but still interesting, when 

 contrasted with the highly-cultivated districts seen in 

 the distance. The most eligible roads for ascending this 

 singular mountain are from Llandovery and Devynock, 

 near Brecknock. 



EADNORSHIEE 



"Oh, sylvan Wye ! thou wanderer through the woods, 

 How often has my spirit turned to thee ! 

 Once again I see these hedgerows, hardly hedgerows now, 

 Little lines of sportive wood run wild ; these pastoral forms, 

 Green to the very door ; and wreaths of smoke, 

 Sent up in silence from among the trees. 

 With some uncertain notice, as might seem 

 Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods, 

 Or of some hermit's cave, where, by his iire, 

 The hermit sits alone." — Wokdswokth. 



This is a favourite county for the angling sportsman. 

 It has many waters of great repute; among these the 

 Wye stands predominant. It rises from Plinlimmon, 

 and after a run of eighteen miles, enters Eadnorshire on 

 the north-west. It forms the boundary between this 

 county and Breconshire, and at the village of Eydspence 

 is the line of separation between Eadnorshire and 

 Herefordshire. The most romantic route, connected 



