Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ..with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families . reat surface features of Carmarthenshire are the hills of the Precelly range, whichtravel up from Pembrokeshire to the , from Llanfyrnach, by Allt-y-walis, and on to theTregaron Mountains, forming the watershed for the Teivi on the west, and the Towy on theeast; and on the other side the eminences of the Black Mountains, Talysarn, and their continu-ing ridges penetrating Breconshire, forming the chief w
Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ..with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families . reat surface features of Carmarthenshire are the hills of the Precelly range, whichtravel up from Pembrokeshire to the , from Llanfyrnach, by Allt-y-walis, and on to theTregaron Mountains, forming the watershed for the Teivi on the west, and the Towy on theeast; and on the other side the eminences of the Black Mountains, Talysarn, and their continu-ing ridges penetrating Breconshire, forming the chief watershed of the Towy and Llwchwron the west, and the Tawe on the east. Between these swellings of the surface comes thefine depression of the Vale of Towy, which from the earliest times must have been the chiefseat of population. Indeed, even to comparatively recent times, Ystrad Tywy was the nameby which all these parts were generally designated. To ravage Carmarthenshire was tora\age Ystrad-Tywy, &:c. Tliis splendid stream, with the chains of landscape wreathings which on either side deckit forth in glory when summer gladdens the land, begins its course high up in the Tregaron. DiRLETON : THE Seat OF Alan James Gulston, Esq. {from apJioto. by Allot). Mountains, in that general region, prolific beyond any other in Britain in streams, where theSevern and VVye, the Rheidol and Ystwyth, the Irvon and the Teivi have all their birth. Itspeedily gathers into its volume several contributories of like wild nature with itself, andrushes down with dancing and not noiseless pace through some of the most picturesquedefiles in S Wales to the Valley of Cilycwm, where it first finds what may with propriety becalled in figure a bed to lie upon. Here, flanked on either side by hills of moderateheight, and accompanied everywhere by scenes of fertility and beauty to which its ownvirtue mainly contributes, it marches on by Llandovery and Llangadock, for, if possible, fairer 214 CARMARTHENSHIRE. u
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