Page:Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales In the Year 1797.djvu/41

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

( 16 )

The wild spontaneous playfulness of the goddess, was happily blended with the industrious efforts of the husbandman; and our senses were, in the highest degree, gratified.

Chirk is beautifully situated, and affords much matter of remark for the pencil.

Llangollen situated in the most beautiful vale throughout the principality, is a small town, with only one tolerable inn: and of the accommodations at that— Cætera desunt — which, by some little freedom, may be construed, "the less is said, the better."

The bridge over the river Dee here, is mentioned as one of the curiosities of Wales. It is built of stone, on the solid rock. The bed of the river runs rapidly through its arches, in various meandering cascades, here and there interrupted by large masses of granite: through the center arch it falls magnificently, in one con-siderable