The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . the Welsh coast centuries beforethe Romans came. Gerald the Welshman speaks of the countrynear St. Davids as stony, barren, unimprovableterritory, without any pleasant meadows, a placeof wind and storm. A tourist of a hundred yearsago adds that the rocks on this shore are shakeninto every possible shape of horror, and says hefound not a glimpse of smiling nature to relievehis aching sight. As there are no hedges, he adds,even the sheep and the geese have to be tetheredtogether. One may add that nowhere in Walescan one get such a sensation of
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . the Welsh coast centuries beforethe Romans came. Gerald the Welshman speaks of the countrynear St. Davids as stony, barren, unimprovableterritory, without any pleasant meadows, a placeof wind and storm. A tourist of a hundred yearsago adds that the rocks on this shore are shakeninto every possible shape of horror, and says hefound not a glimpse of smiling nature to relievehis aching sight. As there are no hedges, he adds,even the sheep and the geese have to be tetheredtogether. One may add that nowhere in Walescan one get such a sensation of sheer 1 seem to remember blue and white skiesand radiant days, and a delicious short thymysea-turf on some of the barest outliers of thiscoast, flanked too by a sea of such colour that itstained ones eyes with Italian blue for hoursafterwards. Fenton opened a tumulus near Castell Havod,which has been called both Danish and Roman,and is neither. At Trevaen—the Three Stones—are the remains of what were called BishopMartins iS X o w §o « o >« HZ W THE NORTH PEMBROKE COAST 331 You pass three more cromlechs before you cometo your last mile at Goodwick. This promotedvillage now forms one side of the harbour andseaport, with Fishguard on the other, that standon the worlds highway and provide a new through-connection on the Great Western sea-route. Thesouth-west corner of Fishguard Bay, well shelteredfrom the prevailing winds and the worst seas thataffect this coast, offers good space for quays anda safe landing, and the Bay a good road for bigships to lie at anchor. The railway has alreadyequipped a dock and built steamers, and converteda country-house into a hotel—the Wyncliff—which is everything that the ordinary railwayhotel is not, ensconced as it is in a green cornerof the cliff above the new harbour works, with awild headland beyond and remains of cromlechsalmost at its back-door. On reaching the terminusand alighting, you have the village
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