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A BOTANICAL TOUR THROUGH SOUTH WALES, &c. 
Selborne) that this is an error, and that the tail is moved up and down—an 
assertion which we have recently ascertained to he perfectly true. 
We intended to have here recorded tho observations on the Sibilous Locustell 
promised in a former number (p. 165) ; but as we have at present neither time 
nor space for the purpose, we are compelled to postpone them. 
Campsall Hallj July 1, 1837. 
A BOTANICAL TOUR IN HEREFORDSHIRE, MONMOUTHSHIRE, 
AND SOUTH WALES; 
WITH INCIDENTAL NOTICES OF THE SCENERY, ANTIQUITIES, &C. 
By Edwin Lees, F.L.S., M.E.S.L., &c. 
(Continued from p. 208.) 
I LEFT Swansea for Neath early in the morning, but making no stay at the 
latter town, pushed on for the “Lamb and Flag" in Glyn Neath, which I had 
ascertained to have assumed of late years the aspect of a comfortable inn ; and 
in this respect I recommend travellers, more especially scientific ones, not to be 
regardless of good quarters, or leave any thing to chance under the hope of an 
adventure, which may often prove any thing but agreeable. The outer man 
must be sustained if science is to profit effectually, and after a hard day’s effort 
nothing is more unpleasant than not to be able to take one’s ease in one’s inn. I 
shall leave others to descant upon the “ Nidum of Antoninus,’’ which Neath is 
said to be, and I have not a word to say in favour of the grim ruins of its abbey, 
shrouded in dust and smoke, and which Donovan, who travelled this way thirty 
years ago, says, “ fail to excite that pensive musing of the mind which buildings 
far less important will sometimes inspire.’’ I will only, while I am enjoying 
the good cheer of mine host of the Lamb and Flag, just intimate, by way of 
episode, that some years previous, when an entire stranger to this part of the 
country, I had walked from Neath to Melincourt to see the celebrated cascade 
at that place. Here, while seated in the dingle on a massy stone some wintry 
flood had hurled from the precipice, amidst tall rank plants of (Enantke crocata^ 
spreading forth their white umbels, and purple stamens, and with my eyes fixed 
on a black sullen trunk that, with leafless arms, stood like a spectre on the rock, 
I listened to the patter of the water as it fell and splashed, and dashed a cloud of 
rime on all the trees around. While thus absorbed in meditation, I was startled 
as I turned round, by the sight of a stranger with a black knapsack on his 
shoulders, who, like me, was intent on a tour in search of the picturesque. 
