Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . E-GOSSIF. 157 western boundary of the valley. Between us andthis splendid outcrop of the Carboniferous limestonestands Dinas Bran, a solitary outlier of Silurianslates, almost conical in shape, which rises to theheight of 600 feet, and is crowned by an ancientcastle. For delightful rambles with vasculum orhammer, or without, there are few places whereone can better spend a week, or, for the matter ofthat, many an one, than Llangollen. Archaeologically, too, there is here much to be
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . E-GOSSIF. 157 western boundary of the valley. Between us andthis splendid outcrop of the Carboniferous limestonestands Dinas Bran, a solitary outlier of Silurianslates, almost conical in shape, which rises to theheight of 600 feet, and is crowned by an ancientcastle. For delightful rambles with vasculum orhammer, or without, there are few places whereone can better spend a week, or, for the matter ofthat, many an one, than Llangollen. Archaeologically, too, there is here much to be seen English structure, built in the year 1200, and heldby the Cistercian monks. The lancet-shaped windowsof the eastern end have a very telling effect, whenone views these ruins against the background of thegreen hills. Not far away the archaeologist finds thePillar of Eliseg standing, a monument not so muchto be venerated for its antiquity as for its beingperhaps the last of its long race erected in theBritish isles. Cromwells soldiers would have provedpoor followers of the aesthetic school, for they mis-. Fig. ^i.—Lithodcndron basaltiforine, a common coral.
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