The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . d to be precisely thosewhich have been observed in former centuries. Inmodern times these rites are never performed, al-though they are enjoined by the laws and ordinances. J. F. R. GRAMMONTS MEMOIRS. Walpole, speaking of this work, in a letter to Pin-kerton, dated Jan. 25th, 1795, says :— Hardingcopies likeness very faithfully in general ; but thenthe engravers, who work from his drawings, neversee the originals, and preserve
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . d to be precisely thosewhich have been observed in former centuries. Inmodern times these rites are never performed, al-though they are enjoined by the laws and ordinances. J. F. R. GRAMMONTS MEMOIRS. Walpole, speaking of this work, in a letter to Pin-kerton, dated Jan. 25th, 1795, says :— Hardingcopies likeness very faithfully in general ; but thenthe engravers, who work from his drawings, neversee the originals, and preserve no resemblance at all;as was the case with the last edition and translationof Grammont, in which, besides false portraits, asMarshal Turrenne, with a nose the reverse of his ;and a smug Cardinal Richelieu, like a young abbe >and the Duchess of Cleveland, called by a wrongname ; there is a print, from my Mrs. Middleton,so unlike, that I pinned up the print over against theother, and nobody would have guessed that one wastaken from the —The edition of Grammontalluded to was that published in 1794, in quarto. THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR. $9 ARTHURS About ten miles west of Swansea, on the top of amountain called Cefyn Bryn, in the district of Gower,is a Cromlech, known by the name of Arthurs Stone;most probably from the practice into which the com-mon people naturally fall, of connecting- every thing-remarkable for its antiquity, the origin of which isobscure or unknown, with the most prominent cha-racter in some memorable period of their history.* Cevyn Bryn, in English the ridge of the moun-tain, is a bold eminence, called by Lhvyd, in hisadditions to Camdens Glamorganshire, the mostnoted hill in Gower, overlooking the Severn sea;and, upon the north-west point of it this cromlechstands. It is formed of a stone, is fourteen feetin length, and seven feet two inches in depth, being-much thicker, as supposed, than any similar remainsin Wales. Generally speaking, it
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