The /Parret/: Its Source--Muchelney Abbey--The Tone and Taunton--Athelney Island and Alfred the Great--Sedgemoor--Bridgwater--Burnham. The /Lower Avon/: Escourt Park--Malmesbury--Chippenham--Melksham--Bradford-on-Avon--Bath--The Frome--Beau Nash--Bridges at Bath--The Abbey Church--Bristol--St. Mary Redcliffe and Chatterton--The Cathedral--"The Chasm"--Clifton Suspension Bridge--The Lower Reaches--Avonmouth 67 THE SEVERN.--_By the REV. PROFESSOR BONNEY, D.Sc., F.R.S._ CHAPTER I.--/From the Source to Tewkesbury./--Birthplace of the Severn--Plinlimmon--Blaenhafren--Llanidloes--Caersws--Newtown-- Montgomery--Welshpool--Powys Castle--The Breidden Hills--The Vyrnwy. Distant Views--Shrewsbury--Haughmond Hill--The Caradoc Hills--Atcham--Wroxeter--Condover--The Wrekin--Benthall and Wenlock Edges--Buildwas Abbey--Coalbrook Dale--Ironbridge--Broseley and Benthall--Coalport--Bridgnorth--Quatford--Forest of Wyre--Bewdley--Stourport--Worcester--The Teme--Ludlow--Tewkesbury 82 CHAPTER II.--/The Upper or Warwickshire Avon./--The Watershed of Central England--Naseby--Rugby--The Swift--Lutterworth and Wiclif--Stoneleigh Abbey and Kenilworth Castle--Guy's Cliff--The Leam--Warwick and its Castle--Stratford-on-Avon and its Shakespeare Associations--Evesham--Pershore--Tewkesbury 107 CHAPTER III.--/From Tewkesbury to the Sea./--Deerhurst-- Gloucester--The "Bore"--May Hill--Minsterworth--Westbury-on-Severn --Newnham--Berkeley Castle--Lydney--Sharpness--The Severn Tunnel-- The Estuary--A Vanished River 119 THE WYE.--_By E. W. SABEL._ "The Notorious Hill of Plinlimmon"--The Stronghold of Owen Glendower--Llangurig--Rhayader Gwy--Llyn-Gwyn--The Elan, the Ithon, and the Yrfon--Llandrindod--Builth--Aberedw and the Last Prince of Wales--Hay--Clifford Castle and the Fair Rosamond--Hereford--The Lug--"The Wonder"--Ross and John Kyrle--Goodrich Castle--Coldwell Rocks--Symond's Yat--Monmouth--The Monnow, the Dore, and the Llonddu--Wordsworth's Great Ode--Tintern Abbey--The Wyndcliff--Chepstow--The Lower Reaches 124 THE USK.--_By E. W. SABEL._ The Black Mountains--Trecastle--The Gaer--Brecon--The Brecknock Beacons--Crickhowell--Abergavenny--Usk--Caerleon and the Arthurian Legend--Christchurch--Newport 149 RIVERS OF SOUTH WALES.--_By CHARLES EDWARDES._