The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ith property in tlie Havens recesses. In less than five- minutes you may cross the iIa\(Mi. liy steinn ferrv. fromPembroke Dock io New .Milford or Neyland. which culls loi- no piirticuhir is a creati(»n of the (Jiciit Westein , in connection with which .steanu-rsply nightly to Ireland. Hence to Old .Milford is a pleasant walk of three nule.^, MiLFOUP HaVEX.] OLD MILFORD. 185 Avith the water continuously to the left. The low g-reen hills of the Haven to thesouth ar
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ith property in tlie Havens recesses. In less than five- minutes you may cross the iIa\(Mi. liy steinn ferrv. fromPembroke Dock io New .Milford or Neyland. which culls loi- no piirticuhir is a creati(»n of the (Jiciit Westein , in connection with which .steanu-rsply nightly to Ireland. Hence to Old .Milford is a pleasant walk of three nule.^, MiLFOUP HaVEX.] OLD MILFORD. 185 Avith the water continuously to the left. The low g-reen hills of the Haven to thesouth are not very beautiful, and it is only on excejttional occasions that the greatAvater-way holds more than half a dozen big ships in its midst. (Jne or twoironclads on guard may, however, at all times be looked for. Imogen, inVi/mhcUne, inquires, as a signiticant aside— by the way,Tell me how Wales is made so happy asTo inherit such a haven! But Waless happiness in this ])ossession is of the kind that depends more on theexpectation of favours to come than on benefits actually enjoyed. Milford Haveu. was better appreciated in the Middle Ages than it is now. It was only natural, for-. example, that Henry Tudor should land here in his quest of the English crown,. Here too, earlier still, Richard II. set foot,on his anxious return from Ireland, when Henry of Bolingbroke was troubling hisrealm. The French chronicler, De la Marque, who was at Milford at this time,finds much to praise in the conduct of the Welshmen who were with the unhappyking. Richards English retinue deserted him and plundered his baggage, but theWelsh could with difficulty be dissuaded from accompanying him in his marchnorth to Conway, and they fell upon such of the deserters as they could. AYliata spirit! Clod reward them for it! says De la Marque. Old j\[ilford is a prettily situated town terraced above the Haven, with quaysand embankments on its shore-line, ready for the traffic that is still withheld from
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