A brief account of the picturesque scenery on the banks of the Wye between Ross and Chepstow . o. B. 31 cottages and a church show themselves. Theopposite cliffs start up from the waters edge,looking like enormous buttresses, and here andthere throwing out bold, fantastic of these projecting rocks have beenchristened by the country people The TwelveApostles, and a thirteenth, which points towardsthe sky, and has a rude resemblance in shape toa thumb, they call * St. Peters Thumb. Thesummit and edge of these cliffs are fringed withthe noble woods and plantations of Piercefiel
A brief account of the picturesque scenery on the banks of the Wye between Ross and Chepstow . o. B. 31 cottages and a church show themselves. Theopposite cliffs start up from the waters edge,looking like enormous buttresses, and here andthere throwing out bold, fantastic of these projecting rocks have beenchristened by the country people The TwelveApostles, and a thirteenth, which points towardsthe sky, and has a rude resemblance in shape toa thumb, they call * St. Peters Thumb. Thesummit and edge of these cliffs are fringed withthe noble woods and plantations of Piercefield ;and, as we passed them, approaching eveninghad shed the most beautiful harmonizing shadesand hues on their rough sides. Presently theriver again turns, and then the grand ruins ofChepstow Castle rising from the very edge of loftyprecipices, the bridge, and part of the pictu-resque town of Chepstow, present themselves inalmost magical combination. The ruins look morelike the remains of a city than of a single castle,and, under certain lights, the eye looking up-wards from the river does not
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