The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . s objects still. The abbey is believed to have been at the point ofhighest prosperity in the time of Owen Glendower. Henry VIII. employed theabbot to draw out a Welsh pedigree for him, which was, no doubt, as faitlifullydone as circumstances would allow. Two later abbots became Bishops of And then followed the Dissolution, with all its waste and ruin. The Bridge of Llangollen is enumerated among the seven wonders of Wales,four of which belong to tlie Valley of the Dee. It scarcely
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . s objects still. The abbey is believed to have been at the point ofhighest prosperity in the time of Owen Glendower. Henry VIII. employed theabbot to draw out a Welsh pedigree for him, which was, no doubt, as faitlifullydone as circumstances would allow. Two later abbots became Bishops of And then followed the Dissolution, with all its waste and ruin. The Bridge of Llangollen is enumerated among the seven wonders of Wales,four of which belong to tlie Valley of the Dee. It scarcely seems to deservetliis particidar renown, thougli it is a very excellent specimen of a media-valbridge, its builder being John Trevor, Bishop of St. Asaph, who completed hiswork in 1350. The Dee at this point flows over a solid bed of rock, or, asChurchyard says: And still on rocks the water runnes, you see,A wondrous way—a thing full Iare and strange,That rocke can not the course of waters change ;For in the streame huge stones and rockes remayneThat backward might the flood, of force, 234 RIVEES OF GREAT BIUTAIX. [The Dee. Tlie name of Llangollen is, bv some authorities, derived from St. ((Hlen, to avIkuhthe church is dedicated. It is an ordinary enough little town in itself; hut isso remarkablv placed that the eye can scarcely turn in any dircctiou withoutfinding pictures of most extraordinary beauty. (hi the side of the bridge fiom the town tlie hill of Diiuis Ihanrises, a huge cotu, to the height of a feet or so. It is so regular inits conical shape that it at first suggests artificial construction. But just at thisplace the hills are all abnormal. The Eglwyseg rocks, for exa!n2ile—best seenfrom the slope of l)inas Bran—might have been transported from some canon inColorado. Thev arc a strange .series of cliffs, one above tho other, regular aswalls, and with dark bushes clinging to them in such a manner as to suggest cave
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