When, as day broke, the maid, through misty air,
Espies far off a wreck amid the surf,
Beating on one of those disastrous isles--
Half of a vessel, half--no more; the rest
Had vanished!"

[Illustration: GRACE DARLING'S MONUMENT.]

VI.

LONDON, WESTWARD TO MILFORD HAVEN.

The Cotswolds--The River Severn--Gloucester--Berkeley Castle--New
Inn--Gloucester Cathedral--Lampreys--Tewkesbury; its Mustard,
Abbey, and Battle--Wercester; its Battle--Charles II.'s
Escape--Worcester Cathedral--The Malvern Hills--Worcestershire
Beacon--Herefordshire Beacon--Great Malvern--St. Anne's Well--The
River Wye--Clifford Castle--Hereford--Old Butcher's Row--Nell
Gwynne's Birthplace--Ross--The Man of Ross--Ross Church and its
Trees--Walton Castle--Goodrich Castle--Forest of
Dean--Coldwell--Symond's Yat--The Dowards--Monmouth--Kymin
Hill--Raglan Castle--Redbrook--St. Briard Castle--Tintern
Abbey--The Wyncliff--Wyntour's Leap--Chepstow Castle--The River
Monnow--The Golden Valley--The Black Mountains--Pontrilas
Court--Ewias Harold--Abbey Dore--The Scyrrid
Vawr--Wormridge--Kilpeck--Oldcastle--Kentchurch--Grosmont--The Vale
of Usk--Abergavenny--Llanthony Priory--Walter Savage
Landor--Capel-y-Ffyn--Newport--Penarth Roads--Cardiff--The
Rocking-Stone--Llandaff--Caerphilly Castle and its Leaning
Tower--Swansea--The Mumbles--Oystermouth Castle--Neath
Abbey--Caermarthen--Tenby--Manorbeer Castle--Golden
Grove--Pembroke--Milford--Haverfordwest--Milford Haven--Pictou
Castle--Carew Castle.

GLOUCESTER.

[Illustration: GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.]

Journeying westward from the metropolis and beyond the sources of the
Thames, let us mount to the tops of the Cotswold Hills, in which they
take their rise, and look down upon the valley of the noble Severn River
beyond. We have already seen the Severn at Shrewsbury, Wenlock, and
Bridgenorth, and, uniting with the classic Avon, it drains the western
slopes of the Cotswolds, and, flowing through a deep valley between them
and the Malvern Hills, finally debouches through a broad estuary into
the British Channel. There is much of interest to the tourist along the
banks and in neighborhood of this well-known river. As we stand upon the
elevations of the Cotswolds and look over "Sabrina fair," the lower part
of its valley is seen as a broad and fertile plain, and the Severn