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Title: The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946
Subjects: Wales -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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unwarylovers who venture on them at dark. Only lastspring a pair went walking toward St. Donats.At a point where the track is close to the edgethe youth slipped his foot, and falling, clutchedat his companions dress to save himself. Bothwent over. He was fatally hurt, and died wherehe fell. The girl escaped with broken bones and,the tide sparing her, she was rescued next morn-ing after a terrible night, during the first part ofwhich she had his groans to add to her owntorment. There are sea-places, stretches, and pitches of arocky coast, especially those where the sea is eat-ing away the land, which affect one by a kind ofindeterminate cruelty, almost malignity of aspect,seen partly in the colour, partly in the forms ofthe rocks. Here the stone is a cold grey, and oftencruelly edged ; and it breaks treacherously underthe feet and hands of the climber climbing upto escape the tide, which flows up with eagerlyreturning waves at the September high tides whena whipping wind is behind it.
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s o 5«! as JO o w KH O HZ ►J Eo J3 H c LLANTWIT MAJOR 105 A little way up the brook, if you follow itscourse by the rough footpath, skirting its banks,and cross a stile or two, you come to the roadunder the so-called Castle, which appears to be ineffect an old mansion, not older than the reign ofHenry VII. If you look back from the southernwalls towards the village and the Odnant cwm,you get a sudden sense of the immense antiquitythat is buried there. The house you are standingnear may be 400 years old, the church 700 years old,the crosses in the churchyard 1,400 years old. By following the winding cwm of the Odnantyou can reach the sea in half an hour; but thereis a quicker way. If the bank is ascended oppositethe church, and across the brook, some smallcottages face the rough lane that leads to the sea;and there is a stile leading into the fields withinfifty yards, from which a footpath, not very clearlydefined, will take you over three fields to join thecwm. Descending it, you c

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