The Cambrian Tourist, or, Post-Chaise Companion through Wales [1834]: Containing cursory sketches of the Welsh territories, and a description of the manners, customs, and games of the nativesAnonymous
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The Cambrian Tourist, or, Post-Chaise Companion through Wales [1834]: Containing cursory sketches of the Welsh territories, and a description of the manners, customs, and games of the natives
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Wales -- Guidebooks
considerable distance—resembling thunder, and its foam rising many
feet above the mouth of the pit. At a short distance to the east, is
a fissure in the cliffs not discernible till nearly on its edge,
called Penny’s and Adam’s Leap, over which these hunters were
precipitated: thence you proceed to the Horse Block, and St. Govan’s
Chapel and Well, to the latter of which great virtues are ascribed.
The surrounding scenery is in the highest degree picturesque: the
larger bay is surrounded by cliffs, in the form of an amphitheatre;
that in which the hermitage is placed is truly romantic. In
proceeding to Stackpool Court, after again gaining the height, you
pass Buckspool, and from thence to Bosherton; below the village, pass
under a tongue of land, on which are the remains of a strong
encampment; near this is a small cavern, in the Limestone Rock, where
human bones have been found. Harold is said to have infested this
coast, and to have left marks of his predatory victories inscribed—
Hic Haroldus victor fuit.
Of three stones, the most east stands in Stackpool Park Warren,
pitched upon one end; the second, surmounting a carnedd, is in a
field called Horsestone Park, consisting of a great mass of
limestone, six feet above the ground, five in breadth, and a foot in
thickness; it is bedded in an almost circular mound of stones. The
third stone is upon the same line, but more west; it is the tallest,
almost incrusted with a minute lichen.”
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