The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . )urple miudledistanees. into sliadowy peaksof faintest blue. How fascinatinglv the bells of Aberdovey have rung thiinselves into thepopular consciousness! And all by means of some foolish verses tiiat are as securelyinnnortal as the famous and touching air in which Neil Oow has set the bells of Mdiiibiiiiih tdwn to music :—. UIVEUS OF SOUTH WALES. ?Ac (IS wvl till tv iiuluiru il\l rwvt liii (!y <;:iiu (li,.Mai nil, (laii, tri, pedwar, puiiiji. ,,Uo I lie lii-lls of Aberdovey. Scale
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . )urple miudledistanees. into sliadowy peaksof faintest blue. How fascinatinglv the bells of Aberdovey have rung thiinselves into thepopular consciousness! And all by means of some foolish verses tiiat are as securelyinnnortal as the famous and touching air in which Neil Oow has set the bells of Mdiiibiiiiih tdwn to music :—. UIVEUS OF SOUTH WALES. ?Ac (IS wvl till tv iiuluiru il\l rwvt liii (!y <;:iiu (li,.Mai nil, (laii, tri, pedwar, puiiiji. ,,Uo I lie lii-lls of Aberdovey. Scaled in a boat in llieluiddk (if the estuary ofthe DovEV river, one lamentsthe fact that the bellsexist in legend only. Howsweetly they would soundthrdiigli llie distance andin the dusk, over this widecxjjanse of shallow waterand glimnuring sand ! Buttlie little town of Alier-dovey, hugging tho hill-sidi- at the south-westerly corner of .Mei-ioiietiisliire. has certainlv liad no ])e;d ofbells at any date nujre recent lliau the time when Owen Glendower dtsceii led intothe l)ovcy valley to procure his own proclamation as Prince of Wales. It is a hund)lelittle town, which, as somebody has remarked, seems to ask itself why it is notLiverpool. It has a wharf and a deep-water ])ier, and a railway at onl\- a fewyards from the beach. J.,arge could lie in safet\- near to the doors of theAberdovey folk, and the maps insi
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