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L ANTHONY. I53
A real one met us on our return in the evening
when we croiTed the ridge, when the wind was so
exceedingly violent that there seenied every pro-
bability ourselves and horses must be actually
blown off the path ; but, fortunately, we pre-
served our footing, and have lived to declare that
no object, however intereshng, shall again lead us
into limilar dangers.
THE SKYRRID
is a lingular land-mark in every direction for
many miles. This circumsrance, and the great
fliTure in its side, made me very dehtous to
examine it attentively. Mr, V--obliged me
with his company, and we proceeded to the
mountain, through a most fascinating part of
Monmouthshire, highly cultivated, and scat-
tered with the castles of the boundaries, both in
England and Wales.
form but very faint ideas of the horror excited by thunder
and lightning in these wild and mountainous places. It was
near the autumnal equinox, when tempestuous weather is most
frequent; the thunder rolls with a loud and aweful rumbling
over your head, and palling along the sides of the hills, is
reverberated through the vales with redoubled noise in almost
endless repercussion 3 while the blue forked lightning, flashing
in every direcf ion through the passes of the mountains, induces
you to imagine that you are surrounded with fire; the con-
tending clouds pour torrents of rain, which, running like
rivers down the cwms, form floods under your feet as you
pass the vales beneath." P. 347.
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A real one met us on our return in the evening
when we croiTed the ridge, when the wind was so
exceedingly violent that there seenied every pro-
bability ourselves and horses must be actually
blown off the path ; but, fortunately, we pre-
served our footing, and have lived to declare that
no object, however intereshng, shall again lead us
into limilar dangers.
THE SKYRRID
is a lingular land-mark in every direction for
many miles. This circumsrance, and the great
fliTure in its side, made me very dehtous to
examine it attentively. Mr, V--obliged me
with his company, and we proceeded to the
mountain, through a most fascinating part of
Monmouthshire, highly cultivated, and scat-
tered with the castles of the boundaries, both in
England and Wales.
form but very faint ideas of the horror excited by thunder
and lightning in these wild and mountainous places. It was
near the autumnal equinox, when tempestuous weather is most
frequent; the thunder rolls with a loud and aweful rumbling
over your head, and palling along the sides of the hills, is
reverberated through the vales with redoubled noise in almost
endless repercussion 3 while the blue forked lightning, flashing
in every direcf ion through the passes of the mountains, induces
you to imagine that you are surrounded with fire; the con-
tending clouds pour torrents of rain, which, running like
rivers down the cwms, form floods under your feet as you
pass the vales beneath." P. 347.
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