Letters written during a tour through South Wales, in the year 1803, and at other times. Containing views of the history, antiquities, and customs of that part of the principality; and interspersed with observations on its scenery, agriculture, botany, mineralogy, trade and manufactures / [J. Evans].

  • John Evans
Date:
1804
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Credit: Letters written during a tour through South Wales, in the year 1803, and at other times. Containing views of the history, antiquities, and customs of that part of the principality; and interspersed with observations on its scenery, agriculture, botany, mineralogy, trade and manufactures / [J. Evans]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    justice, and the evils arising from want of a proper publicity pf the laws Page 198 , LETTER IX. Tapper vale of the Towy delightful—Reflection on early rising— Dryslan Castle—Grongar Hill—Golden Grove—Dinefawr Castle, seat of the latter South Wallian princes—Its fate;— Ruiiw now inclosed within Newton Park—Seat of Lord Dine- yawr—;Laugharne—Hovilles used as fuel—Green bridge of ■\V les—Abbey of Whiteland—Tygwyn, the royal residence of Howel Dha—tlis code of laws nearly equal to the Justinian code—Character of this great man—Circle of stones, a Druidi- cal temple, like that near Rolright, Oxfordshire—Tenby, a celebrated bathing place,—Its port—Castle—The birth-place of Gyraldus Carabrensis—Island of Cakley—Safe anchorage for shipping—Oyster fishery—History of this fish, and mode of taking, fattening, &c.—Reflections on luxury.. '22G LETTER X. Different dress, language, and manners of the people of Pem- brokeshire from the other counties—Little England beyond Wales—A race of Flemings—Road to Pembroke—Fine view from it—Pembroke—Its Castle, description and history Mil- ford Haven—Description—Its local importance considered Tlie key to Ireland—Picton Castle—Landing of Henry Earl of Richmond, afterwards King Henry VII.—Anecdote of Rice ap Thomas—Coal works—Observation on the direction of mineral veins—Manner of procuring coals—Fire damp Ha- verfordwest—Its Castle—Reflections on the late scarcity and monopoly of the corn trade—Its iniquity. 253 LETTER XT. Sterility of the country about St. David’s—A curious phenomenon, illustrative of the advances made by the sea on the western and sonth-we.stern parts of the kingdom—Febidiog or St. David’s Head—Y Mayn Sigl, or the shaking stone—.Anecdote of Henry II.—Isle of Ramsey—Peculiar breed of sheep—Bishop and his clerks—Birds which freeptent these chtfs various— Falconry—Account of this ancient fashionable amusement Christianity early preached herc-Cathedral of St. David’s