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Duw dy nawz! ac yn nawz nerth;. ac. yn 
nevth pwyll; yo mhwyll cyviawnder3; ac yn 
nghyviawnder cariad; ac-yn nghariad caru 
Duw5 ac yn ngharu Duw caru pob peth ! 
Which, literally, runs thus in Englifh— 
God grant thy proteftion! and in protec- 
ion ftrength 5 and in ftrength difcretion; and 
in difcretion juftice 5 and in juftice love; and 
in love the love of God; and in the love of 
‘God the love of all (living) things. 
This form is generally called the prayer 
of Talbaiarm, becaufe it was he who drew 
it up for the ufe of the meetings, at which 
he prefided; and being approved of by 
other focieties, it came into general ufe. 
Talbaiarn was a celebrated bard, who 
flourithed in the feventh century; and is 
mentioned by Nennius, and other writers ; 
but we have not the pleafure of having 
any of his poetical works preferved. I 
am, Sir, your’s, &c. MEIRION. 
cena 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
The PHENOMENA of the Wve, during 
» the Winter of 1797-8. 
(Concluded from page 346.) : 
N the phenomena hitherto defcribed, 
there is nothing abfolutely peculiar to 
the prefeat year. They occur, in a fnaller 
degree at leaft, almoft every winter. I 
come now to defcribe a {pectacle more 
fingular and more fplendid, I mean the 
icicle froft that ufhered in the month of 
December. 
This very curious phenomenon was in-~ 
troduced by a heavy fall of melting fhow, . 
which took place in this part of the 
eountry, on Wedneiday, the 29th of No- 
vember, and was fucceeded, on the fol- 
lowing day, bya cold and drizzling rain, 
which continued to fall, without inter- 
mifhon, for three fucceflive days, freezing 
as it fell, and incrufting every object 
with icicle upon icicle, till nothing but 
froft work was to be feen. On Sunday 
the rain was fufpended; a fharp and un- 
mitigated froft fucceeded, and the ferene 
and ‘cheerful tranfparency of atmof- 
phere, with which it was accompanied, 
revealed a {cene of novelty and {plendour 
not to be equalled even by the extravagant 
fictions of necromancy and fairy land. 
Mountains and valleys, orchards and 
hanging forelts, paftures, hay-ricks, and 
roofs ot houfes, all were incrufted alike, 
and prefented one wide land{cape of the 
moft beautiful cryftal. Eut the tints of 
nature, (fuch as the feafon can. boaift) 
were rathey fhaded than concealed, and 
the tran{fparent, veil that was thrown over 
them, only increafed their beauty... The 
. fhare of attraCtion. 
2 Phenomena of the Wye in Winter. 
young wheat that had ventured its grees 
blade above the earth during the milder 
part of November, was ftill confpicuous 
through the ice that incrufted it; and the 
fheep that wandered about over the flip- 
pery paftures, might behold the grafs 
which they were forbidden to tafte. The 
woods and orchards, in the mean time, 
were fo laden with icicle, that but for 
the tranfparency of this wintry foliage, 
(if I may fo exprefs myfelf) they would 
have been as impervious ws in the full 
luxuriancy of fummer. : 
But the moft f{plendid of all the objects 
prefented to the eye, during this remark- 
able froft, were the evergreens, and par- 
ticularly fome towering and majeftic firs, 
whofe dark hair-like leaves were incrufted 
over in the moft beautiful manner, and 
whofe fpreading branches bending be- 
neath the load, exhibited a magnificent 
fucceffton of glittering feftoons, not to be 
imitated by any of the puny efforts of 
human art. 
In the midf of this fcene of fplendid 
novelty, the Wye itfelf did not lofe its 
In many places even 
this rapid ftream was nearly frozen over, 
and fhoals of ice floating down the con-— 
traéted channel, and crufhing among the 
rocks, produced a fort of wild and awful 
mufic, that harmonized with the magni- 
ficence’of the fcene. 
Upon the whole, the eye, perhaps, was 
never prefented with a more magnificent 
fpectacle. Fortunately, however, it did 
n0t long continue; if it had, whole flocks 
of fheep (particularly on the mountains) 
mutt inevitaby have perifhed for want of 
food. Even as it was, fummer, in fome 
‘degree, will mourn its ravages. ‘The or- 
chards, wherever they were at all expofed, 
have been cruelly fhattered; and the 
woods and plantations have fuffered in a 
{till more confiderable degree; the weight 
of icicle tearing down whole limbs and 
branches ; and, in many inftances, en- 
tirely breaking off the tops, fo as to mar 
the future growth of the timber. Even 
whole trees, where they happened to fand 
ina reclined pofition, as foon as the earth 
began to foften with the approaching 
thaw, were torn up by the roots, by the 
enormeus weight of ice that loaded their 
branches. The hanging groves at the 
Priory Walks, near Brecknock, which, 
purfuing the romantic curves of the Hon- 
dy, conftitute a principal beauty of that 
fairy {cene, exhibit a mournful pifture of 
defolation: and I paffed the other day 
through an extenfive plantation in Rad- 
.narfhire, belonging to Mr. WILKINs, 
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