

credit



Transcribed from the 1841 Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans
edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

[Picture: Decorative title page, with Goodrich castle (followed by proper
                               title page)]





                                 THE WYE
                           AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS


                          A PICTURESQUE RAMBLE.

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                         BY LEITCH RITCHIE, ESQ.

     AUTHOR OF "WANDERINGS BY THE LOIRE," "WANDERINGS BY THE SEINE,"
                           "THE MAGICIAN," ETC.

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                                 LONDON:

                     LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND
                                LONGMANS.

                                  1841.

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                                 LONDON:
              PRINTED BY J. HADDON, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.




ADVERTISEMENT,


A portion of the lower part of the Wye has been described by Gilpin,
Archdeacon Coxe, and some others; and the same portion has been touched
upon, with greater or less minuteness, by Prince Puckler Muscau, and
various Welsh tourists, as well as by Whateley in his Essay on Modern
Gardening.  It seemed, however, to the writer of the present sketch, that
something more was due to the most celebrated river in England; and that
another book (not too large for the pocket, and yet aspiring to a place
in the library) which should point out the beauties of the Wye, and
connect them with their historical and romantic associations--beginning
at the source