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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: the windings of the sportive river, until it takes a turn southwards to seek the sea, and allaround the scene is fair and lovely, and makes the sane beholder feel the better for it. Man superior walksAmid the glad creation, musing praise.And looking lively gratitude. This is Abergwili, the junction of the Gwili with the superior flood of Towy; and thename of that smaller stream will always have a pleasant sound to him who has wandereda few miles along its banks. Close by is Castle Pigyn, and further on a mile or two theancient home of the Pliilippses of Cunngiuili (see Philipps of Ciumgivili), a branch of one of 220 CARMARTHENSHIRE. those long-continuing families which in different parts of Wales form such interesting linksbetween the present and the long past. Further up, as far as Cynwil, and farther still, thisnarrow vale of the Gwili, a gorge rather than a valley, presents a succession of exquisitepictures such as the man of taste would like to carry home and hang up on his walls.

Text Appearing After Image: Casti.e PlGYN : THE SEAT OF WALTER OvvEN PRICE, EsQ. [from aphoto. bv Alle?i). Compared with the streams of Carmarthenshire, the Towy, the Cothi, the Gwili, and others,we can venture to say,— The Arno and the Tiber langHae run full clear in Roman sang ;But, save the reverence o the schools,Theyre baith but hfeless, dowie pools. The following view in the Vale of Gwili, from the pencil of Mr. Coleman, gives a goodspecimen of its bold and romantic scenery, and is perfectly faithlul to nature. This viewrecords the labours of the GwiU. How long has it taken the ev^er-active stream to scoopout this deep and rocky channel? and whither has it carried the loosened materials? Therewas a time when the bed of the stream was level with those higher rocks which now flankthe channel. The stone is of the hard Silurian strata. A generation shows no perceptibledifference in the bed of the river: at its junction with the Towy its level has probably beenabout the same for a thousand years ; and yet the

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