The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . Flujla: I. SUiIrr, Uandndnn. MOEI. SIAIIOI), IHOM Tin f//. Jll). long boughs for scciinfy—a bridge erected in an emergoncy. and for a temporarypurpose, as one niidit guess; a bridge of perilous slo])e. lias dune goodservice- to more lliini one generatinn ol miners, clindiiiig up llie lilllside 1o llu-ndaily toil. »f liettws-y-(!oed—tlie i5ede House in tlie Wond — so nmeli is knnwn lliatlittle need^ in this to be said lieic is Iuiitv Iair. and a scene wliicli painting
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . Flujla: I. SUiIrr, Uandndnn. MOEI. SIAIIOI), IHOM Tin f//. Jll). long boughs for scciinfy—a bridge erected in an emergoncy. and for a temporarypurpose, as one niidit guess; a bridge of perilous slo])e. lias dune goodservice- to more lliini one generatinn ol miners, clindiiiig up llie lilllside 1o llu-ndaily toil. »f liettws-y-(!oed—tlie i5ede House in tlie Wond — so nmeli is knnwn lliatlittle need^ in this to be said lieic is Iuiitv Iair. and a scene wliicli painting The Lligwy ] BETTWS-Y-COED. 213 has made more familiar tlian almost any other in these islands. The hasbeen associated mth the name of Inigo Jones, but at least the base of thestructm-e dates back to the fifteenth century, being the work of a mason who mustalso have been a fine architect, and who died, as it seems, before his work was. I ONT \ rAIB, complete. It has four loftv arches, about which an ancient and gnarled ivy , when the water is quiet, one may see the trout dashing al»out amid thepools. The river-bed is riven and torn, and full of craggy masses. A rocky islet,on which clusters a most picturesque grou}) of fir trees, divides the accelerating-waters, that now, after one final battle with obstructions, sweep sharply round acurve, and shortly join the Conway. The valley of the LlTlPr always presents itself to this present writers recollectionas he beheld it first, at the end of a dry summer, when the eye feasted without 214 RIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. [The Lteur. weariness on glowing coloin-. and when every bend of tlie river opened up somepiece of countrv whieli was like one of Turners glorious dreams. He saw it laston a dav of drifting rain. And in wet or in dry seasons the Lledr valley permitsof no comparison between itself and any other. It is inec^nparahle in its variousbeautv; it is unique
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