PAINSCASTLE, Six miles from Hay, on the Bachwy, which nearly encircles the village. PRESTEIGN, eight miles from Radnor. This is a very beautiful little town, situated on the Lug. The trout and grayling caught in the neighbourhood, are, perhaps, of a superior quality to all others found in that stream. OLD RADNOR, two miles and a half from New Radnor, on the Somergill and Hendwell.—Both famous for their trout and eels. ELLAN, five miles from Rhaider, on the Ellana very good little river. LLANBISTER, twelve miles from Knighton, on the Ithon.- Beautiful scenery, and excellent angling. TRAWSCOED, five miles from Builth, between the rivers Ithon and Wye, near the spot where the former flows into the latter. Excellent angling; salmon, trout, grayling, chub, &c. THE LAKES OF RADNor. Radnorshire contains several small lakes worthy of mention, viz. one in the vicinity of Rhaiader, near the road leading from that town to Aberystwith, the most picturesque and interesting within its limits. LLYN GWYN, a piece of water of considerable size, situated within a few miles of Rhaiader, in the opposite direction.-Perch, trout, and eels. LLYN LLANIDIN, about a mile in circumference, of considerable depth, containing abundance of fish, and singularly situated near Llanvichangel-nantMelan, two miles and a half from New Radnor. LLYN BYCHLLYN, near Paniscastle.-Trout, eels, &c. LLYN GWINGY, on the borders of Cardigan.Trout, eels, &c. LLYN HENDWELL, a small lake, abounding with trout and eels, near Old Radnor. CARDIGANSHIRE. "Sith I must stem thy stream, clear Tivy, yet before The rivers of Cardigan are exceedingly numerous, there being no valley unwatered by a fine stream; they afford plenty of the finest salmon, salmon trout, sewin, trout, samlets, scarlings, eels, &c. The principal of these is the Teivi, which rises from Llyn-Teivi, or Teivy pool, on the mountain about two miles north of Strata Florida. It issues THE AËRON. THE CLEDON. THE WIRRAI. 133 from the lake by so small an outlet, as scarcely to accredit its relation to the noble river into which it soon afterwards expands. After receiving a small stream about a mile and a half from its source, it flows about a mile further, to a place called Pont Lywd, where it is joined by the Moywn, issuing from Llyn Egnart. Its other tributaries are the Glaslwd, Meyrig, Marchnant, Flûr, Camddwr, Berwyn, Cives, Brêvi, the lower and upper Clywedog, Frwd, Croyddyn, Crannel, Ryddlan, Clettwr, Einon, Cerry, and Cerdyn, besides innumerable small streams and brooks. THE AËRON Rises from Llyn Aeddwen, in the parish of Llanryrystydd; having, during the whole of its course, with only some slight deviation, formed the arc of a circle, it falls into the sea near Llandewy Aberath. Between this river and the Teivi are eighteen brooks and rivulets, all communicating with the salt water, and, like them, abounding with salmon, salmon trout, sewin, &c. &c. THE CLEDON Has a south-easterly course, is about six miles in extent, and falls into the sea at Llansainfraid, about three quarters of a mile from Aberlon. THE WIRRAI Rises in the mountains above Cwrn-r-olchva, and passes the village of Llanvihangel Lledrod in a northerly direction. No streams intervene between this and the Ystwith, the next river for our consideration. THE YSTWITH Rises in the mountains, about three miles from Llangibby, on the Wye, and falls into the Rheidol at Aberystwith. It is a beautiful river for angling, and receives in its course to the sea upwards of twenty-three tributary streams. THE RHEIDOL Rises in a lake called Llyn Rheidol, in the Plinlimmon Mountains, and flows into the sea at Aberyst. The falls of the Rheidol are deservedly celebrated. The basin into which the river precipitates itself is agitated like a sea by the violence of the shock: the rocks that have planted themselves across its channel are of enormous size; the hue of the waters is dark, while the surrounding cliffs rise perpendicularly many hundred feet above the gazer's head; nothing glitters through the gloom but the foam of the torrent; nothing invades the deep silence but its sound. Opposite to this stupendous object, on a precipice of forests, at the height of more than a hundred and fifty yards, stands the inn called the Hafod Arms. The Rheidol soon afterwards meets with the Mynach, but the cascades on the two rivers are not within sight of each other. THE MYNACH, Or "Monk's River," rises on the east side of the mountains east of Spythy Ce'n vaen. The first fall of this truly Acherontic stream is about forty yards south-west of the bridge, where it is confined to narrow limits by the rocks, and is projected about six feet over the ridge, into a basin at the depth of eighteen feet. Its next leap is sixty feet, where it rages ingulphed between protruding crags. The third fall is diminished to twenty feet, from which it struggles to the edge of the largest cataract, and pours in one unbroken torrent down a precipice of one hundred and ten feet. Bursting into light in a volume of foam, which had before been obscured by the hanging branches of the wide-spreading beech, it seems to threaten, as it breaks against the opposing rocks, to tear the mountains from their strong foundations. The river, therefore, falls two hundred and eight perpendicular feet, without allowing for the declivity of the three pools. To this must be added one hundred and fourteen, which makes the perpendicular height three hundred and twenty-two feet.* THE LERY Rises in the mountains not far from the Camddwr, close to a house called Waun Hescog. After a course of seven miles from Tal y bout, it flows into the sea near Moel ynys. THE DEYVI Rises in Merionethshire, and flows into the sea near Melindwr. * Meyrick's Cardigan. |