is situated in the finest portion of the vale of that

name.

PENCOED, four miles from Bridgend, on the Ew

enny.

PENDOYLAN (" the head of the two groves"), five five miles from Cowbridge, on the Elay.

PETERSTON, seven miles from Cardiff, on the Elay. Good in the spring only.

PYLE, a pretty village, eleven miles and a half from Neath on the Pyle, an excellent stream.

RESOLVEND, seven miles from Neath, on the Neath. Many beautiful cascades.

RHWNGDWY CLYDACH, seven miles from Swansea, between the lower and upper Clydach rivers. RHYDGWERN, near Caerphilly, on the Romney. RHUDDRY, eight miles from Cardiff, on the Rom

ney.

CHERITON, Sixteen miles from Swansea, near the confluence of the rivers Barry and Loughor.

GLYN TAF, at the confluence of the rivers Tâf and Rhondda. The bridge Pont y Prydd, celebrated for the singularity of its architecture, crosses the steep banks of the Tâf at this place, near the village of Newbridge.

All these rivers abound with fine fish.

THE LAKES of Glamorganshire are small, and few in number: the principal one is Kenvig Pool (between Margam Park and the sea coast). It lies near the shore, in the midst of sands, and contains no trout, but abundance of perch, eels, &c.

Of those among the mountains, the most remarkable is, Llyn Vawr, below the lofty Peak of Pencraig. It has plenty of fish, and prodigious quantities of wild fowl.

CARMARTHENSHIRE.

"Grongar! in whose silent shade,
For the modest Muses made,
So oft I have, the evening still,
At the fountain of a rill,
Sat upon a flowery bed,

With my hand beneath my head;

While stray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood,

Over mead and over wood,

From house to house, from hill to hill,

Till Contemplation had her fill.”

Grongar Hill.

THE principal rivers are the Twyi, or Towy; the Tâf, or Tave; the Llychwyr, or Loughor; the Teivi; and the Gwendraeth Vawr and Gwendraeth Vach, or greater and lesser Gwendraeth; there are, besides, numerous smaller streams.

THE TOWY,

The largest and most important river in South Wales, rises in the wildest part of Cardigan, between Strata Florida and the borders of Brecknock. After a southerly course of ten miles, it enters Carmarthenshire, near Ystrad Florida, and pursues the same direction through a romantic valley for about eight miles further, to Llandovery, where the mountains recede on either side, leaving,

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in the interval, a rich and beautiful valley of considerable width, through which the Towy winds, gradually assuming a more majestic character. After a further course of about twenty-seven miles, it reaches the metropolis of the county.

This river is celebrated throughout Wales for the flavour and quantity of its fish, consisting of salmon, sewin, trout, lampreys, eels, &c.

The tributaries of the Towy are the Gwilli, which joins it at Abergwilly; and the Cothy, which rising at Cwm Cothy, near the borders of Cardiganshire, falls into the Towy above the mouth of the Gwilli, after a course of about twenty-four miles; the Bran, near Llandovery; the Swaddy, (descending from the small lake at the northern extremity of the Carmarthenshire Beacon), near Llangatock; and the Cynnen, to the south of Llandilo. -Sewin, salmon, trout, and eels.

THE TAF, OR TAVE,

Springs from the Llanvyonach Mountains in Pembrokeshire, and having formed for a short distance the boundary between that county and Carmarthenshire, flows to St. Clears, where it receives the Cowyn. The Tâf receives the small rivers Morlais and Cathgenni, with many considerable brooks. This is a fine river, containing salmon, sewin, &c.

THE LOUGHOR

Springs in a copious stream from a rock called the "Eye of Loughor," in the parish of Llandilo

Vawr; near its source it forms a fine cascade, precipitating itself over a ledge of limestone rocks eighteen feet in height; and after a course of about eighteen miles, in which it receives the Ammon, a stream larger than itself, and several smaller rivers, falls into the creek of Loughor, Glamorganshire.

THE GWENDRAETH VAWR AND THE GWENDRAETH VACH

Have their source in a lake on the Great Mountain, and fall into the Bay of Carmarthen.—These rivers also abound with salmon, sewin, trout, eels, &c.

The principal Fishing Stations are,—

PONT AR DULAS, or the bridge upon the Dulas, about ten miles from Swansea. This river produces the sewin in great perfection during the summer months, when they ascend in shoals from the sea. To the north of Pont ar Dulas are six or seven good trout streams: there is also abundance of game. South Wales possesses few spots more attractive to the lover of field sports.

ABERNANT, five miles from Carmarthen, on the banks of the Cowyn.

LLAN, five miles and a half from Carmarthen, on the Gwendraeth Vach river.

LLANARTHNEY, seven miles and a half from Carmarthen, on the Towy. This village is surrounded by a profusion of the richest and most picturesque scenery. Situated on the south bank of the Towy, on one of the finest reaches of that beautiful river,

it appears to be entirely enclosed by lofty hills: the distant mountains which form one side of the vale of Cothy, receding to the north, open a passage for that stream to its confluence with the Towy. The shattered walls of Dryslyn Castle crown the summit of an isolated rocky eminence, which rises abruptly out of the vale; and a little further westward, is a larger eminence, the celebrated Grongar Hill. Under the shelter of a blackthorn, still remaining on its summit, Dyer is said to have composed the poem which has conferred an immortality on his name.

LLANBOIDY, Six miles and a half from St. Clears, on a tributary of the Tâf.

BRECHVA, eleven miles from Carmarthen. Two very beautiful brooks unite close to this village, and flow towards the Cothy, through the meadows opposite the only public-house there. Higher up in the mountains is another little river *, which is very

* While fishing this stream, in the summer of 1828, the author experienced a pleasing instance of the simplicity of manners and genuine hospitality that distinguishes the peasantry of the agricultural districts of Wales. In crossing the mountain, at the foot of which the Brechva stream murmurs over its rocky bed, and precipitates itself in a hundred little cascades towards its junction with the Cothy, he was espied by a farmer, apparently engaged in collecting his cattle, that had strayed over the unbounded right of pasture attached to the mountain farms. The temptation of examining a stranger, obtaining an insight into his pursuits, destination, &c. was too strong to be resisted in a country where so little occurs to interrupt the monotony of rustic life, and where the dress and appearance of an English