The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ws in all the land can do no more than claim to be its peer. After we have passed on the lelf Llancaut and on the right Pierce \\oods, thesturdy old town of Chepstow comes into view. The casth>, from the river, seems tohave thrown out of the liviny,- rocks, which here rise sheer from the water to a great The Wye.] CHEPSTOW. 147 height, and form a natural defence that must liave rendered the fortress impregnableto all attack from the water. Supposed to have been built in the eleventh andre
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ws in all the land can do no more than claim to be its peer. After we have passed on the lelf Llancaut and on the right Pierce \\oods, thesturdy old town of Chepstow comes into view. The casth>, from the river, seems tohave thrown out of the liviny,- rocks, which here rise sheer from the water to a great The Wye.] CHEPSTOW. 147 height, and form a natural defence that must liave rendered the fortress impregnableto all attack from the water. Supposed to have been built in the eleventh andrebuilt in the tliirteenth century, it experienced its most stirring times in the daysof the Civil War. It was held by the Royalists; and there first appeared before itColonel Morgan, who,witli singular valour anddetermination, carried itby assault. Later onSir Nicholas Kemys suc-cessfully surprised theplace, which actionbrought before the bat-tlements Cromwell him-self, who, however, couldnot spare the time per-sonally to direct theoperations. His sub-stitute. Colonel Ewer,with great skill conducted.
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