Descriptive Excursions Through South Wales And Monmouthshire PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805 edition. Excerpt: ... chap. iii. Caerleon.--Inspection of the principal Ruins still extant.--Supposed Roman Tower, --City Walls, --Scite of an Amphitheatre, and Tradition concerning it.--Concise View of the History of the Place; and of its present State.--Relics of Roman Antiquities, Sculpture, 8 c.--Salmon of the Usk, Skerlings, $c.--Accidental Walk to Christ Church, on the Eve of Trinity Thursday Festival;--curious old Tomb-Stone in the Chancel, --and Confirmation of the superstitious Ceremony annually paid to it, by afflicted Devotees. --Route continued from thence to Newport Both Athens, Theabes, and Carthage too, We hold of great renown; What then, I pray you, shall we do, To poor Caerleon towne. Let Caerleon have his right, And joye his wonted fame: --Churchyard. punctual to his appointment, our Ciceroni for the day, (the parish clerk of H 4 Sf. Cadoc's St. Cadoc's) was in waiting for us, as the clock struck seven, on the morning after our arrival at Caerleon; and when we had finished breakfast, accompanied us for several hours in our walks about the town, as well as afterwards, in taking a pretty extensive circuit through its vicinity. This afterwards proved to be a most interesting ramble, replete with amusement, and not entirely devoid of information.--A digression from the direct route between the New passage, and the town of Newport, in order to bestow a visit on this place, had been more than once in contemplation, as we passed along the lower part of Monmouthshire; and at length, during this excursion last summer, we had found leisure to accomplish it. Pursuant to this intention, we had rested for one night, at the New passage-house on the English side of the Severn: from whence we took the advantage of a favourable wind and tide, to cross th