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Descriptive excursions through South Wales and Monmouthshire. In the year 1804, and the four preceding summers / By E. Donovan.

  • Edward Donovan
Date:
1805
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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOLUME THE FIRST. ■n9K«e» CHAP. I. Page Excursion from London to Bristol.—Clifton and its environs : St. Vincent’s rocks : Natural products : Extraneous fossils, or antediluvian bodies; Bristol diamonds; plants, &c.—New passage.—Severn.— Charston rock.—Coast of Monmouthshire.—Re- trospective glance at the invasion of Siluria by Julius Frontinus; and its final subjugation.—Cur- sory remarks on the Roman money, &c, occa- sionally discovered on this coast; and on that sup- posed by some to appertain exclusively to the Cam- brian princes - \ CHAP. II. Road from the New Passage.—Caldecot castle.— Course of the Roman causeway.—Caerwent: its ruins, and other antiquities;—Dawle-gwad-gwyr- marw, a medicinal plant, &c.—Penhow castle.— —Deviation to Caerleon - - » - 58 CHAP. III. Caerleon. Inspection of the principal ruins still extant.—Supposed Roman tower,—City Walls, Scite of an amphitheatre, and tradition con- V01 *• b cerning
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