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Title: Picturesque views on the river Wye, from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow: with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity:
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Ireland, Samuel, d. 1800
Subjects: Wye, River (Wales and England)
Publisher: London : R. Faulder (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ftrength, and of considerable ex-tent -, it was bnilt by Miles, Earl of Here- R ford, ( l ft ) ford, in the reign of King Henry I. whofethird fon named Mahel, Camden informsus, was here overtaken by Gods judg- ments for his rapacious ways, inhuman cruelties, and boundlefs avarice. For being courteoufly entertained here by Walter de Clifford, the caftle taking fire, he loft his life by the fall of a (tone on his head, from the higheft tower. Thecuftody of St. Briavals,. with the Foreft ofDean, was granted to John de Monemouth,in the eighteenth year of King John. TheEarl of Berkeley is the prefent conftable,and the Duke of Beaufort, under whofe di-rection the caftle is kept in a good ftate ofrepair,, is lard of the manor. The tower inthe weft front is now uied as a Driibn.From hence, the views of the furroundin^country are extenfive and beautiful -3 andhere the meandering of the Wye paints thelandfcape, as in its general courfe, andfpreads- richnefs and fertility In the vallies through
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( «3 ) through which it flows. Returning to ourboat we pafled Bigs Weir, near which, onthe bank of the Wye, is the feat of GeneralRooke, whofe father captured Gibraltar. It is fituated in the midrt of a rich paf-turage, and commands a full view of theriver, and that interefting variety of movingobjects, which its bufy commerce here pre-fents. Amidft a range of beautiful fcenery,we pafs the pleafant village of Llandogarabout a mile below. Here the river formsa fmooth and glafTy bay, through which thewhite failed vefTel is feen conftantly gliding,or lying moored on the more to take in herfreight. The undulating hills, called theHudnelis, form a beautiful back ground tothis charming fcene, of which the annexedview will give a faint idea. A little below is Cadithil Weir, fromwhence we dropped pleafantly down the R 2 ftream ft ream to another village called BrooksWeir, which is confidered a half way dis-tance from Monmouth to Chepftow. Atthis place the goods fent from Monmouthare fhipped

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