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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
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il on the edgeof the precipice. By a fteep and unpleafantpath, the traveller, from thefe rocks, has T fome- ( 46 ) fometimes afcended to the grounds of Pen-field. A circular bend of the river now dis-played to our view the noble ruin of Chep-flow cattle. The Situation of this vener-able building is finking. It is built on thefummit of an immenfe perpendicular rock7into which it appears rivetted, or rather tobe growing out of it j as from the top o£the battlements, down to the bafe of the cliffon the margin of the river, it is one conti-nued range of precipice. This majeftic remain, is from the pre-fent point of view peculiarly interefting, andin its effect highly piclurefque. The an-cient Gothic entrance partly in ruin, the ir-regular breaks and prominencies in the ge-neral form of the building, which is a mix-ture of the Norman and Saxon ftyle, are mmany parts overgrown with large clumps ofivy and variegated fhrubs, fometimes beauti-fully cluttered among the fragments of the cattle^
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oN ^ •S •8 C 147 ) caftle, and again falling down and enrichingthe white and awful cliff below. The adjoining bridge from its height,lingular conftrucrion, and relative fituationto the caftle has a romantic air, and is wellcalculated to give general effect to the land-fcape. On the oppofite more, the different formsof the cliffs and rich verdure with whichthey are cloathed, and the mails of the vef-fels from behind the bridge breaking on theeye, complete the fcene, and render it al-together a happy group of objects for thepencil. This bridge is built with timber,and the boards which compofe the floor,are fo laid as to yield to the water and playfome inches, It is feventy feet above thefur face of the river, and is fo conftructediti confequence of the impetuofity of thetide, which, j-uft as it rumes in from the Se- T 2 vera ( «4« ) vern fea, being here fuddenly confinedwiliin a narrow channel, is frequentlyknown to have rifen forty feet. As itdivides the counties of Gloucefter an

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