The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . , rears up its abutmentsand sheer towers like an Oriental stronghold orcastle bewitched on its grey and red rock, nottwo miles away ; the Black Mountains, filling upthe northern confines, keep a gloom which evenin sunlight is never lifted. At the foot of theCastle Rock runs another stream, the Cennen,which seems plainly destined to join the Llychwr ;but it goes off on an errand of its own, pastPont Trapp and Derwydd, to join the Towyinstead. Four miles south the Amman joins theLlychwr stream, and by here, as David says,came the Twrch Trwyth
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . , rears up its abutmentsand sheer towers like an Oriental stronghold orcastle bewitched on its grey and red rock, nottwo miles away ; the Black Mountains, filling upthe northern confines, keep a gloom which evenin sunlight is never lifted. At the foot of theCastle Rock runs another stream, the Cennen,which seems plainly destined to join the Llychwr ;but it goes off on an errand of its own, pastPont Trapp and Derwydd, to join the Towyinstead. Four miles south the Amman joins theLlychwr stream, and by here, as David says,came the Twrch Trwyth and his little pigs onthe famousest boar hunt in all the sagas. Youcan take up the scent there at its hottest in theMabinogion :— And the huntsmen went to hunt the TwrchTrwyth as far as Dyffryn Lychwr. And two ofthe pigs, Gold-haired Heather-Hog and the GrizzlyQuester, turned on the hunters and killed all butone. Then Arthur and his host came to the placewhere Heather-Hog and Grizzly were, and he letloose all his hounds on them; and what with the. w OS X en y. w X H K •. H XI en BO < c U % g a Li z a X w (J a H OS OS including Arthurs uncles, Red Eyed Emys andGwr-Bothu, is himself hard pressed. The TwrchTrwyth hims
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