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of the wealthy on the opposite shore richly diversify the whole. The distance composed of Walton Hills, about 10 m. below, breaks harmoniously, forming a happy termination across King's Road and the Bristol Channel. Hence groups of vessels constantly moored near the mouth of the Bristol Avon, though at the distance of 3 m. are perfectly distinguishable.

Archdeacon Coxe appears to have been much gratified in performing the navigation of the Wye. "The Banks," he says, abruptly from the edge of the water, and are clothed with forests broken "for the most part rise into cliffs. In some places they approach so near, that the river occupies the whole intermediate space, and nothing is seen but wood, rock, and water; in others they alternately recede, and the eye catches an occasional glimpse of hamlets, ruins, and detached buildings, partly seated on the margin of the stream and partly scattered on the rising grounds. general character of the scenery, however, is wildness and solitude; and if The we except the populous district of Monmouth, no river perhaps flows for so long a course through a well cultivated country, the banks of which exbibit so few habitations." Convenient vessels adapted for holding eight persons besides the boatmen, provided with an awning, may be had at Hereford and Monmouth.

Mr. Coxe dwells much on the description of the Coldwell Rocks, and Symond's Yatt. The latter is not less than 2000 ft. above the water. The river here makes a singular turn; and though the direct distance by land is not more than 600 yards, the course by water exceeds 4 m. continuing the navigation of the Wye to Tintern Abbey, Mr. Coxe partiIn cularly notices the romantic village of Redbrook, the church, and castle of St. Briavel's, the beautifully situated hamlet of Llandogo, and Brook's Weir. At the latter place the river exhibits the appearance of trade and activity, and is the point where the maritime and internal navigations form a junction. Vessels from thirty to ninety tons, from Bristol and the Somersetshire ports, frequently lie here, waiting for the tide, which seldom flows to any considerable height above this place. The usual practice is to go from Hereford to Ross in a carriage, and thence in a boat to Chepstow ; but the beautiful scenery on the banks of the Wye is omitted.

Mr. Warner thinks there is no mode of seeing the numerous and varied beauties of this river so satisfactorily as by tracing its sinuosities on foot; and the following is the route he pursued from Hereford. Wye at Castle Green, and struck through the grounds and farm-yard of Crossed the Rotherwas, the elegant family mansion of C. Bodenham, Esq. Hill lay before, and the Roman encampment, which receives its name from Dynevor it, on the 1. Hence he took a farewell view of Hereford and its neighbourhood, the adjoining hills, and the black mountain, that striking boundary to the N. w., and enjoyed a diversified and sweeping prospect to the opposite point. "Our approach," he says, descent of nearly 1 m. through a rich productive country. "to Holm Lacy was by a gradual the many mansions belonging to his grace the Duke of Norfolk. The This is one of older part of it displays the Elizabethan style. The more modern part was built about the beginning of last century. Its situation is quiet and retired, commanding a beautiful, but confined, view in front. Lacy was for some centuries in the ancient family of the Scudamores, Holm whose ancestor, St. Scudamore (so called from "Scutum amoris divini," which words he took for his motto) attended William the Conqueror in his expedition to England. Philip Scudamore, a descendant, settled here in the fourteenth century. This was the principal seat of the family till the year 1716, when the last Viscount Scudamore dying, the estate vested in

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his only child, a daughter. By Charles Fitzroy Scudamore, Esq., (her second husband) she also had a daughter, to whom the property descended. This lady married the Duke of Norfolk in 1771, and added Holm Lacy to the princely domains of that nobleman. It was the last Viscount Scudamore who rebuilt the greatest part of the manor-house. He was the friend of Pope, who frequently wooed the Muses here. The good taste of the Duke of Norfolk allows the mansion to remain unaltered. The family portraits, and elaborate carvings by Gibbons, but little inferior to those at Petworth and Chatsworth, are still a part of their venerable ornaments. The apartments are decorated with many valuable paintings by Vandyke, Jansen, Holbein, and other artists. Here is a very capital picture, by Hamilton, of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba ; and Louis XIII. and his Queen, by Beaubrun, an artist contemporary with Vandyke. In the cabinet is a sketch of the great Lord Stafford, in crayons, from Vandyke, by Pope.

The grounds at Holm Lacy are very interesting. The old garden, on the s. front, was formed on the model of Hampton Court, in Middlesex, and is a very spacious terrace. The yew trees, originally clipped into grotesque shapes, have been left to regain their foliage. Ascending the hill into the park, the scenery becomes more noble, and the landscape more expanded. From the upper part of it are commanding prospects of the Gloucestershire hills, the black mountains in Monmouthshire and Brecon; those over Herefordshire and Bradwardine, with Robin Hood's Butts; and the Clee hills in Shropshire. Near the parsonage house is a remarkable Pear Tree, covering nearly of an acre, and forming an orchard of itself, having yielded for many years from 12 to 16 hogsheads of perry. It is accounted for as follows: A large branch having been broke by the wind, its head fell to the ground, the butt still adhering to the trunk. Some time after it appeared to have struck into the ground, taken root, and formed a scion. Willing to humour this lusus naturæ, the incumbent gave directions for other layers to be made from the tree in a similar manner, which became rooted, and bore fruit. Opposite Holm Lacy, at the bottom of an extensive meadow, is a ferry to the village of Fownhope. Passing this place, about m. to the N., is an ancient Camp, and twice that distance, to the N., is another, occupying the summit of an eminence called Capler Hill; the latter camp is doubly trenched, and called Woldbury. This hill is finely wooded ; the prospects from it are extensive and rich; among which the vagarious Wye forms a striking feature. Here the river makes a capricious turn to the s., and leads the pedestrian who follows its banks a circuitous walk of 6 m. to Fawley Court, a venerable mansion of the time of Queen Elizabeth, and anciently belonged to Sir John Kyrle, an ancestor to the "Man of Ross." To the village of How Caple the direct path is 2 m. Inclosed by a reach of the river below Fawley is Ingeston House, an old and spacious brick mansion, long the residence of the Hoskyns family. On the banks of the Wye, nearly opposite to Ingestone, at a place called Hole in the Wall, are the remains of an ancient building; the site is now partly occupied by many cottages. About 1 m. lower down, on the Wye, is another of the ancient Camps, which form a chain upon the eminences in this part of the country. It occupies the summit of Eaton Hill; the entrenchments are very perfect and deep; the area is cultivated. A farm-house at Eaton displays vestiges of an ancient mansion; the ground about it is called the Park of Eaton. Opposite to Ross, on the w. bank of the Wye, are the ruins of Wilton Castle. Goodrich Castle, the ancient family seat of the Talbots, rises upon the opposite bank of the river, at the distance of 4 m. from Wilton. Proceeding to Hensham Ferry a considerable sweep of the river

is left, which contains no features particularly interesting. Again crossing the Wye, you turn immediately into a path through the meadows on its banks. Here the scene becomes truly majestic.

The Coldwell Rocks, rising to a towering height on the r., alternately start through the thick woods which mantle their sides in lofty pointed crags; and display broad masses of their surface, relieved by creeping lichens and diversified with mineral tinges. Mr. Warner's course led him up to a steep and winding ascent to the summit of Symond's Rock, a stupendous precipice. Hence the river, just crossed, with its contiguous scenery, appears spread beneath. In an opposite direction are seen the New Weir and iron works; a short and capricious turn of the river, the Doward Rocks, and a huge insulated craig, little inferior to the cliff from which it is seen. At the New Weir it is again necessary to cross the river to follow its meanders. On the r. for more than m. continues a bold steep bank covered with beech trees. The Doward Rocks, constituting a very grand feature of the Wye, now begin to open, opposite to which is a very fine echo, from near a spreading beech-tree, in the middle of the meadow. This path leads to the turnpike-road from Ross to Monmouth, which runs parallel with the river for some distance, commanding a glorious view of the Wye. Passing the bridge at Monmouth over the Wye, and turning into the meadows near its margin, at the distance of little better than m., the river makes another grand sweep to the r., and assumes a new character. Dismissing its rocks and precipices, it rolls through lofty sloping hills, thickly covered with waving woods. All here is solemn, still, and soothing. An agreeable variety, however, soon occurs at the picturesque village of Redbrook, a busy scene enlivened by active industry in various forms. Whitebrook, another hamlet, ornamented with the house of Captain Rooke, presently succeeds; to the 1. of which, on a commanding elevation, is seen the village of St. Briavel's, with its church and castle. The singular village of Llandogo, which next opens, is disposed upon a lofty hill, the indented side of which is mantled with deep woods, with many small cottages intermingled. The river next takes a sharp turn to the 1. to Caerdithil, in a descent of several feet in the distance ofm. At the populous village of Brook's Weir, the Severn hoys ascend to receive the lading of the Wye barges, where Mr. Warner, left for a short time, the banks of this river, to wind up a narrow lane for another mile. He then attained the summit of a hill, from which a prospect appeared of extraordinary richness and variety; behind, the fairy region of Llandogo, the busy village of Brook's Weir, deeply embosomed in the wood, and the crystalline river studded with vessels; in front, the village of Tintern, with the diversified scenery of the dale in which it stands, and the lofty ruins of its abbey. Descending the hill, and again crossing the Wye, Mr. Warner proceeded to the Beaufort Arms, which is a comfortable inn.

To Monmouth. Barber; Gilpin.

Goodrich Castle. Barber; Coxe.

Tintern, from Hereford, by the banks of the

Wye to Wilton Castle, 20 miles; i. e. to

Goodrich Castle, 5 m.; New Weir, 2 m.; Doward, 2 m.; Monmouth, 3 m.; Redbrook, 2 m.; Liandogo, 4 m.; Tintern, 4 m.

PLACES WHERE THE TOURISTS, WHOSE ROUTES HAVE BEEN GIVEN, BEGAN, AND WHERE THEY ENDED.

Mr. Pennant commenced his Tour in Wales, at Downing, his native place and residence, and ended at Caerwys. His journey to Snowdon was made from the same place, and concluded at Abergele. His third excursion was also from his own fireside, and his account ends with Caer Caradoc, near Church-Stretton, Shropshire.

Mr. Wyndham entered the Principality by the New Passage, to Chepstow; proceeded to Tintern, &c. ; and returning by way of Monmouth, revisited Chepstow. Mr. Aiken began his Tour at Shrewsbury, proceeded to Llan-y-mynach, &c., and returned to Llangollen.

Mr. Skrine commenced his Tour in S. Wales at Glocester, and ended at Hay. He entered on his Tour in N. Wales at Shrewsbury, and concluded at Montgomery. The Rev. R. Warner began both his first and second Walks in Wales, at the New Passage he ended his first at Chepstow, his second at Swansea.

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The Rev. W. Coxe's Picture of Monmouthshire begins at the New Passage, and ends at Piercefield.

The Rev. W. Bingley commenced his Tour in N. Wales at Chester, and ended at Shrewsbury.

The Rev. J. Evans began his Tour through N. Wales at Shrewsbury, and ended at Chirk; through S. Wales at Bristol, and ended at Beachley-ferry, near Chepstow. Mr. Barber commenced his Tour in S. Wales at Bristol, and ended at Glocester. Mr. Hutton began his principal Tour at the Wrekin, and ended at Mold.

Mr. Malkin began his S. Wales at Cowbridge, and ended at Llanbithian, near the same place.

Mr. Donovan commenced his excursions in S. Wales at Bristol, and terminated them at Tenby.

Mr. Manby made an excursion from Clifton near Bristol, through the counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, and Brecon.

Mr. Gilpin set out from Manchester, making his first remarks on Northwich, and ended at Shrewsbury; but in his route is omitted the Lake of Bala, the Vale of Festiniog, and the mountain of Cader Idris.

We commence with Mr. Lipscomb at Worcester, and proceed with him through S. Wales and the adjoining counties of England to Birmingham, on his return to London.

Mr. Meyrick's Cardiganshire does not assume the form of a Tour, but is a well digested History.

Mr. Jones's Breconshire is on the plan of the former.

Mr. Fenton begins his Historical Tour at Fishguard, and ends at the same place.