The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . a buttress like astaircase. Krom its churclivard tombstones one mav learn mucli, as well as thecommon lesson of the mortalitv of mortals. It is, for example, interesting to theHtrangcr to be informed that Let is no unusual diristian name lor a nuin here,and for a woman, ihe town suffers from a complaint nowadays rareamong the capitals of counties, to wit, diflicult railway conmnmication withthe of the land. This will be remedied somewhat when the exislinfr line iscont
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . a buttress like astaircase. Krom its churclivard tombstones one mav learn mucli, as well as thecommon lesson of the mortalitv of mortals. It is, for example, interesting to theHtrangcr to be informed that Let is no unusual diristian name lor a nuin here,and for a woman, ihe town suffers from a complaint nowadays rareamong the capitals of counties, to wit, diflicult railway conmnmication withthe of the land. This will be remedied somewhat when the exislinfr line iscontinued freni Newcastle Knd. I»at (jue may be excused for hoping that Teifis The BJSE OF THE YSTWITH. 189 banks may for years to come know notliing of the mauling and devastation thatwill be inevitable when this takes 2)lace. If you wish to see Teifi, or Tivy, quite to its end, it is worth while to gonorth another three miles, to Gwbert-on-the-Sea, a distinctly primitive and pleasingwatering-place, facing Kemmaes Head, with the mile and a half of Teifis mouth(at its widest) Photo: S. J. Alien, Femhroke Docl: Bidding farewell to thebeauteous Teifi, we mustnow in few words track thelast of our rivers to the same inevitable destination. Ystwitii has had no poets thatwe are aware of. Not all who visit Aberystwith, indeed, perceive (though theysurely might) that it gives its name to this salubrious town. The Eheidol,which also enters the sea at Aberystwith, is treated with distinction. For itthere is a solid, handsome bridge, lighted with lamjjs. But for Ystwith there is onlya very commonplace bridge. The Ystwith rises in the broken upland a few miles south of Pllnlinnnon,runs in a deep channel for three or four miles, and then, with little hesitation,though infinite sinuosities, rushes due west. Its entire length is not more thanthirty miles. Until it comes to the road by Eglwys Newydd, and within four 100 RIVEES OF GREAT niUTATX. [ miles of the D
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