The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . to Llandudno Bay. It Avas hereabout, but on the Conway side of theriver, that the pearl-fishing was carried on: — Conway, which out of his streame cloth sendPlenty of pearls to deck his dames withal — says Spenser, in the Faerie Queene. The pearl fishery liad once a real Su Richard Wynn of Gwydir presented to the queen of Cliarles IL a Conwa}pearl, which afterwards adoincd the regal crown. This was probably of a kind thatwas found higher up the river, at Trefriw. A more common v
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . to Llandudno Bay. It Avas hereabout, but on the Conway side of theriver, that the pearl-fishing was carried on: — Conway, which out of his streame cloth sendPlenty of pearls to deck his dames withal — says Spenser, in the Faerie Queene. The pearl fishery liad once a real Su Richard Wynn of Gwydir presented to the queen of Cliarles IL a Conwa}pearl, which afterwards adoincd the regal crown. This was probably of a kind thatwas found higher up the river, at Trefriw. A more common variety was found inabundance on the bar, and the collection of the pearl-beariog mussels was for along time a distinct and regular industry. As for the pearls found in thesemountainous rivers, said a letter-writer of the seventeenth century, they are veryjilentiful, and unconnnonly large, though few of them well coloured. They arefound in a large, black muscle, peculiar to such rivers. Several ladyes of thiscounty and Denbighshire have collections of good pearlc, found chieHy in the riverConway. 222 niyi:iis of nninT niuTArx. [The Conway. Deganwy, tlio place where tlie Avliite waves break up^n tlie shore. was a vo\ alresidence from a very remote period. It liad a castle. Avliich is said to liave beenerected in the sixth century by Maeljrwyu <;\vynedd, and to have been destro
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