The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . Moel Siabod seems to have come nearer, and the far distance isclosed in by the Glyders, Tryfan,and the Carnedd Llewelyn in the valley is the Llyn-yr-Afanc, or the Beavers Pool,and nearer to Bett\vs-y-Cocd theriver is crossed by the tine . span of the iron Ijridge whichwas built in the year of the battle of Waterloo. The Conway has no par-ticular attractiveness as it passes Bettws, where David Coxs famous signboard may still be seen at the Royal Oak Hotel. It has here a green margi
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . Moel Siabod seems to have come nearer, and the far distance isclosed in by the Glyders, Tryfan,and the Carnedd Llewelyn in the valley is the Llyn-yr-Afanc, or the Beavers Pool,and nearer to Bett\vs-y-Cocd theriver is crossed by the tine . span of the iron Ijridge whichwas built in the year of the battle of Waterloo. The Conway has no par-ticular attractiveness as it passes Bettws, where David Coxs famous signboard may still be seen at the Royal Oak Hotel. It has here a green margin of meadow-land, which grows broader as we proceed towards Llanrwst, a sweetly-placed little market town, to which small vessels seem to have made their way in the last century, for a sailor who penned a diary in 17(19 wrote how Jjlanrwst is situated in a very deep bottom on the river Conway, betwixt Denbigh hills and Carnarvon rocks, some of which appear to hang over the town. Nevertheless, we found a much better anchorage than we could have expected at such a DOttOm. FAIRY GLEX, rii^i 218 RirERS OF GREAT BRITAIX. [Tur Cos«ay. This sailor w;is an obsorving man, for ho continnos:—• Llanrwst isa small market-town, auitaining one cluiroh. a niavket-hall, as thev eall it. andabout liftv or sixty houses, but never a godd liouse among llic wliole are some good liouses nowadays, however, and a line stduc bridg(> ofthree arches, witli a peculiarly high and graceful spring. Here, again. lh(design is attributed to Inigo Jones, as, perhaps, ought to be the case in tlicimmediate country of that renowned architect. Gwydir Castle, the family mansionof tlie Wvnns, is a conspicuous object among the woods wliich here clusterinider the feet of the craggy (arnarvonsliire hills. It has now passed, throughtlie hands of the Earl of Ancaster, whose forbears nuirried with the Wynnfamilv, into the possession of the Earl Carrington. The founder of the castlewas Sir .
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