Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ..with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families . len). district by St. Clears, near which it receives two or three tributaries, to the sea at Llacharn(Laugharne), after running a course of about twenty-seven miles. In the deep and narrow 222 CARMARTHENSHIRE. valley of the Taf, not far from Llanboidy, is the mansion of Dohuilym, in as sweetly sheltereda spot as home of peace and quiet could well be placed. And on the estate is a finespecimen of those myste
Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ..with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families . len). district by St. Clears, near which it receives two or three tributaries, to the sea at Llacharn(Laugharne), after running a course of about twenty-seven miles. In the deep and narrow 222 CARMARTHENSHIRE. valley of the Taf, not far from Llanboidy, is the mansion of Dohuilym, in as sweetly sheltereda spot as home of peace and quiet could well be placed. And on the estate is a finespecimen of those mysterious monuments of antiquity called cromlechs, a faithful engravingof which, from a photograph by the same hand, is here given. This noble monument lies inso distant and unfrequented a spot that it has nearly escaped observation, and has neverbefore, so far as known to the writer, been illustrated. We are indebted to Miss SchawProtheroe for information concerning the cromlech, and for the photograph here engraved. Near the village of Llanboidy is Afaesgwyn, the seat of W. R. H. Powell, Esq. ; andfurther down, on a contributory of the Taf meeting it at Whitland, is Whilland Abbey, or. Cromlech at Ddlwilvm. rather, a new residence built near the site of the celebrated abbey (of which notice willhereafter be given), by the Hon. W. H. Yelverton. On the Carmarthenshire claims the beautiful bank of the Tehn, from Lampeter tothe Cenarth falls, below Newcastle Emlyn ; and in the latter part of this extent, for adistance of twelve or fourteen miles, the landscape is equal to that of the Vale of Towy,though on a scale somewhat more confined. Near the Cenarth falls is the well-knownmansion oi Llys7iewydd, the seat of William Price Lewes, Esq. (See Leiucs of Llysiiewydd.) The side of Carmarthenshire bordering on Glamorganshire^ is mainly distinguished forthe bold eminences of the My/iydd Du, or Black Mountains {YFan—\X\Q highest point—2,596 feet above the sea), and the pretty vall
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