The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . )ure air and healing wells. As long ago asthe seventeenth century, the waters of these wells were known to liave medicinal. Fhoto: Hudson THE BRIDGE, LLANDRIXDOD. properties that made thorn of peculiar value to those sufferinu from scrofula andkindred troubles. The water iiows out of the rock high up on a hillside, and guestsat the pump-house and hotels enjoy a magnificent panoramic view of the valleysof the Wye, Ithon, and Yrfon. In the last century an hotel of extravagant luxurywas
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . )ure air and healing wells. As long ago asthe seventeenth century, the waters of these wells were known to liave medicinal. Fhoto: Hudson THE BRIDGE, LLANDRIXDOD. properties that made thorn of peculiar value to those sufferinu from scrofula andkindred troubles. The water iiows out of the rock high up on a hillside, and guestsat the pump-house and hotels enjoy a magnificent panoramic view of the valleysof the Wye, Ithon, and Yrfon. In the last century an hotel of extravagant luxurywas erected by the side of these wells, but, proving unprofitable, it soon became afavourite resort of gamblers, and continued to be the scandal of the country untila ladv of j^ractical piety became possessed of the property, and, so that tlure shduldbe no doubt about her ideas on the subject of gambling, had the building torn downand utterly removed. That happened long ago, and now other hotels have takenthe place of the one of evil rejHite; and Llandriudod, having railway conmumicationwith the outside Avorld, is prospering- exceedingly. Let us add that it has not, inits prosperity, come to feel ashamed of its Shaky Bridg
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