The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ia, or the Stone of Llia, is a huge boulder of granite someeleven feet high by the Roman road of Sam Helen, which, far up near thesource of the Llia, crosses the mountains with the recognised audacity of a Romanthoroughfare. But few are the wayfarers, other than reckless tramps, who set eyeson this one among the many monoliths that decorate Wild Wales. It is at Ystrad-fellte that the wonders of the Neaths scenery begin. This little village standsmore than 900 feet above the sea-level, and th
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ia, or the Stone of Llia, is a huge boulder of granite someeleven feet high by the Roman road of Sam Helen, which, far up near thesource of the Llia, crosses the mountains with the recognised audacity of a Romanthoroughfare. But few are the wayfarers, other than reckless tramps, who set eyeson this one among the many monoliths that decorate Wild Wales. It is at Ystrad-fellte that the wonders of the Neaths scenery begin. This little village standsmore than 900 feet above the sea-level, and the Mellte (as Llia and Dringarthconjoined are named), in its fall of nearly 500 feet in the five miles betweenYstradfellte and Pont Neath Vaughan, is a succession of pictures so lovely, andyet so confined, that they excite as much admiration as despair in the mind ofthe artist who comes to paint them. The Little Neath runs parallel with theMellte during this course, separated from it by a high ridge, and scarcely a mileapart. This stream also gallops in a rocky bed, with soaring woods on both banks,. NEATH AbllEV I/J. 1|1). 170 EirERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. [The Mellte. and with waterfalls here and tliere of much beauty. But the ^fellte and its twoatttuents, the llepste and tlie Sychnant, quite put the Little Neath in the shadein this resjieet. You may see it for yourself, and also judge by the opinionsexpressed without reserve by the many colliers and tlieir families who come hither,on picnic bent, from Ilirwain and even Jlerthyr, over the hih eastern hills. TheVale of Xeath would be accounted a wonder if it were in Middlesex. But itsremoteness keeps nietrojiolitan tourists aloof; its charms are for the local colliers,and few besides. The Cwm Forth, or river cavern, a mile below Ystradfellte, is the lirst of theMelltes marked eccentricities. The combination of rocks and water and wood, withthe added element of danj^er in exploring!: this rugged, echo-haunted ])erforation inthe cliff
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