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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20917#0190
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solidity. The earth within it is clogged by the
roots of nettles and wild raspberries, and the
external wall next the moat is festooned with ivy.
That on the North Hopes outward, and the
wall is full five feet six inches thick. A cir-
cular aperture in the depth may have been the
ssue of a chimney. Ivy, the alder, sweet briers,
and nettles, almost inclose the fragment. The
area, about 80 feet in diameter, was planted with
potatoes.
The elevation is very considerable, and com-
mands a varl extent os country. About four
miles Eastward riles Aconbury hill, cloathed
with foliage, the site of an antient camp ; on
the North a beautiful varied surface, closed by
the Radnorshire mountains, veiled by distance ;
Kriseley wood descends in front to the meadows
of St. Devereux, where the diminutive church is
2 plealing object ; and fields of grain are con-
tinued thence to an abrupt elevation, beyond
which the eye leaps to the Black Mountains and
the Skyrrid in Monmouthshire ; directly South is
Kenchurch, and the barren hill tufted by furze;
the Saddle bow, another great eminence, con-
cludes the panorama, in which the very distant
fields and woods have the appearance of the deli-
cate miniatures of landscape produced by a reversed
tele sc ope.
THE
solidity. The earth within it is clogged by the
roots of nettles and wild raspberries, and the
external wall next the moat is festooned with ivy.
That on the North Hopes outward, and the
wall is full five feet six inches thick. A cir-
cular aperture in the depth may have been the
ssue of a chimney. Ivy, the alder, sweet briers,
and nettles, almost inclose the fragment. The
area, about 80 feet in diameter, was planted with
potatoes.
The elevation is very considerable, and com-
mands a varl extent os country. About four
miles Eastward riles Aconbury hill, cloathed
with foliage, the site of an antient camp ; on
the North a beautiful varied surface, closed by
the Radnorshire mountains, veiled by distance ;
Kriseley wood descends in front to the meadows
of St. Devereux, where the diminutive church is
2 plealing object ; and fields of grain are con-
tinued thence to an abrupt elevation, beyond
which the eye leaps to the Black Mountains and
the Skyrrid in Monmouthshire ; directly South is
Kenchurch, and the barren hill tufted by furze;
the Saddle bow, another great eminence, con-
cludes the panorama, in which the very distant
fields and woods have the appearance of the deli-
cate miniatures of landscape produced by a reversed
tele sc ope.
THE