The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . s—SOI I feet aliovc .sea-level—a littlevillage and its chiu-ch. A curious mound near the junction of the two rivers,designed, as .some think, to guard the jjassage; and then the Severn, turning againtr> the east, on towards )ury. Its valhV now has become more o]ien :parks and country houses here and there dajiple the gentler slopes within no gnatdistan of ihe The Severn.] A FAH VIEW OF THE VALLEY. 89 Longmynds oi- the distant pyramid of Corndon. But, of couvse, to e
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . s—SOI I feet aliovc .sea-level—a littlevillage and its chiu-ch. A curious mound near the junction of the two rivers,designed, as .some think, to guard the jjassage; and then the Severn, turning againtr> the east, on towards )ury. Its valhV now has become more o]ien :parks and country houses here and there dajiple the gentler slopes within no gnatdistan of ihe The Severn.] A FAH VIEW OF THE VALLEY. 89 Longmynds oi- the distant pyramid of Corndon. But, of couvse, to enjoy to perfectionA-iews of the land which feeds the upper waters of the Severn, it is necessary to quitthe valley and obtain a Pisgah sight from some commanding hill. Thence we look. c after mile of lowland,, cornfield, and pasture,g downwards from barerougli hillsides on which the copsesoften are thickly clinging, to themargins of brooks and to the Ijodof the main river. To the west,line after line of hills recedesmore dimly into the distance, tillat last one shadow is pointed outas Plinlimmon, and another, yetfainter, as Cader Idris, and some-times an apex of a far-off pyramidis said to be Snowdon. Southof us, and \et more to the east,lie the nearer masses already mentioned, while in these directions the eye maydetect, from .some points of view, the peaked summits of the Caradoc Hills, or mayrest upon the huge hogs Itack of the Wrekin as it rises aljruptly from the Shrop-shire lowland. There are few prettier districts in our country than the borderland 105 Photo: Rohins07i <i: Thompson, Liverpool, A aUIET XOOK OX THE VYKXWY. J)0 KIVLnS OF GREAT JUHIAIX. [Thk Sevkkx. l)et\vocii Eiiirlaiul and Wales; and that part of wliich we now s])eak ean Imld itsown with ii
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