The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . ok when seen within its clear depthof a true mermaid colour; they look now likemermaids, now uncannily like so many naked,drowned men. It is not hard to understand, ifone sits (as Kingsley made Amyas Leigh sit inhis blindness) against the Gull Rock, and seesthence the rocks and the weeds beneath themerry blue sea, how he came by that , for romance and lost galleons and buriedhoards of pieces-of-eight, no Indian isle canbeat Lundy—that rib of granite which lies snugbut deadly in the Sea of Severn; a harbour ofrefuge or a shipbre
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . ok when seen within its clear depthof a true mermaid colour; they look now likemermaids, now uncannily like so many naked,drowned men. It is not hard to understand, ifone sits (as Kingsley made Amyas Leigh sit inhis blindness) against the Gull Rock, and seesthence the rocks and the weeds beneath themerry blue sea, how he came by that , for romance and lost galleons and buriedhoards of pieces-of-eight, no Indian isle canbeat Lundy—that rib of granite which lies snugbut deadly in the Sea of Severn; a harbour ofrefuge or a shipbreaker, according to which sideyou take of it. We reached Lundy, as I have told, in a hotsun; we left its pirate cove in a cold rain, tothe first mutterings of a nasty wind in the 182 THE SOUTH WALES COAST Lametor crags. We had not sailed above threeor four furlongs before Mariscos Isle had dis-appeared ; and we got back home that eveningand saw the gas-lamps lit in the street, with asense of having been in a place just a little overthe worlds CHAPTER XVII THE EAST GOWER COAST—THE MUMBLES, OSTRE-MUERE AND PENNARD—MORGAN, QUEEN OF THELAND OF GORE— DRABA AIZOIDES I am the Queen Morgan le Fay,queen of the land of Gore. Mobte DArthur. Leaving the last of the Swansea suburbs atSketty, and then striking across Clyne Moor forBishopston, or taking the more usual route bythe lazy Mumbles railway, you will find a changeof entertainment in the land of Gore. There isa choice of castles, to say nothing of the BoneCaves and smugglers runs, the endless creeks orslades, and the cliff architecture above them. Oystermouth Castle, better than the fragmentsof Swansea, recalls the hold of the castle-buildersin the country. Apparently the first of thestring of Gower fortresses tied to Swansea Castle, Ostremuere afterwards became more importantthan Abertawe. As you see it now, you see itmuch altered from its original state. The firstcastle was burnt in the eighteenth century, whenthe pres
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