The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . sea trout, and liass, and in the estuary plentifidgrey nudlet, Avhich nuike fine and exciting sport Avhen a ring of nets is throAvnaround them, and the noisy and vigorous beaters drive them into the meshes. One nuist go up the Dysynni to see the famous Bird Eock, a great .shoulderof mountain on which the hawk and the cormorant dwell. It is so precipitous thatit may be climljed on only two of its sides, and it has one of those echoes forAvhich Wales is almost unapproachable, so that the music
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . sea trout, and liass, and in the estuary plentifidgrey nudlet, Avhich nuike fine and exciting sport Avhen a ring of nets is throAvnaround them, and the noisy and vigorous beaters drive them into the meshes. One nuist go up the Dysynni to see the famous Bird Eock, a great .shoulderof mountain on which the hawk and the cormorant dwell. It is so precipitous thatit may be climljed on only two of its sides, and it has one of those echoes forAvhich Wales is almost unapproachable, so that the music of any instrument that isplayed upon it will be reverberated in a startling chorus from all the surroundinghills. Lower down the river, always amid such scenery as it were vain to describe,there is the site of a manor house from which Prince Llewelyn wrote importantletters to ecclesiastical magnates in London, and which that stout soldier-kingEdward I. visited, for he dated a charter thence. Older relics there are, like theTomen Ddreiniog, which, maybe, is one of the barrows of the happier. THE LO\VEU BRIDGE, TORUENT WALK (p. 199). 198 RirEES OF GREAT URTTATX. [The MAwr,r> dead.* It is a vallov renowned for its birds and tlieir sonas. tlli^^ of theDysynni, and iur its rare plants and mosses, and its rich store of niaiden-liair wc apj)roacli Towyu the mansion of Ynys-y-MaengW3-n, the dwelling of ananeient Welsh familv, presents a quaint and most picturesque mixture of architecturalperiods, for it combines all the styles of domestic architecture that prevailed betweenthe period of Elizabeth and that of the Georges. The Dysynni is a land-locked river as it approaches the sea. for the Cambrianliailway crcxsses its estuary. There is a spectacle on one hand of what seems a lakeamong purple mountains, and on the other of a stream winding amid dreary Hatsto the breezy waters of Cardigan Bay. Towvn, which is but a small place, has acertain fame for sea-bathing,
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