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Title: Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ... with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families Year: 1872 (1870s) Authors: Nicholas, Thomas, 1820-1879 Subjects: Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Reader Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Text Appearing Before Image: erless appearance of the mountain is compensated, saysone tourist and angler, by the excellent sport the pools afford. On leaving Llyn Teivi, a walk PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF CARDIGANSHIRE. 135 of a few minutes will bring you to the top of the mountain, and at once in view of four morelakes, each within a few yards of the other, all containing trout. In the fair country a little above Lampeter, to the right of the course of the Ieivi, issituated Deny Oniiond, commanding an extensive view of mountain and vale. In theneighbourhood of Lampeter are also Glandcnys, the seat of AVilliam Jones, Esq. (see/o/ws,Glaiidc/iys), ^i\d Fa/co/idale, the seat of J. Battersby Harford, Esq. (see Harford, Falcondale)with numerous other residences of less note. As will be seen under the head of Old andExtinct Families, this part of the county has been long distinguished for men prominent instation and in public life, some of whose mansions still remain, wliile the very sites of othersare undistinQ;uishable.

Text Appearing After Image: Derry Ormond: the Seat of John Inglis Jones, Es(2. The town of Lampeter differs in little from other small country towns, except in thepossession of an institution for the education of the clergy of the Established Church, openalso for the reception of lay students, without respect to ecclesiastical relations. St. DavidsCollege was established some fifty years ago with the especial design of improving theeducational tone of the Welsh clergy. For some years the Rev. Eliezer Williams had con-ducted a school of his own at Lampeter, of which town he was vicar, and had been sanctionedby the bishop of the diocese to train young men for the Church. His plan was, afterhaving for the first five years led candidates for holy orders through several of the classics,and through a course of general literature, to direct them to the study of theology. It washis special solicitude not only that they should acquire a habit of expressing their ideas uponpaper with facility, but that they should devote

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