and swans. The walls of the ruined keep are enormous. The view from its top down into the hollow shell of the castle, and the great cavernous spaces, was worth going far to see; and he who visits England without seeing Raglan Castle, Tintern Abbey, and the river Wye, does not know what beauty there is in Old England.

From Monmouth I went on by coach ten miles to Ross, the road following the river, which was for the most part shut in by high hills, passing the Leys House estate, charmingly situated on a broad straight stretch of the Wye, and then losing sight of the river for a while until a little beyond Goodrich Castle, we came upon it again at Goodrich Hope Ferry, four miles or so from Ross.

The farms here were very fine, splendidly cultivated, and dotted over with great symmetrical hayricks. This is said to be the best wheat land in all England.

Ross is situated on a hill-side overhanging a broad meadow, and so completely intersected by the winding Wye, like a crescent or letter C, that the town could not have possibly stood in the valley if it had been desired to place it there. Here, in the principal church, the "Man of Ross" is buried; and the old market - house which he founded stands just opposite the house, not now existing, where he lived.

"Behold the market-place, with poor o'erspread,

The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread."

This is a pleasant, comfortable, agricultural town,

a place where it would seem, if anywhere, plenty and contentment might perpetually dwell; and with this happy and home-like vision on the banks of the silvery Wye, mingled with the thoughts of charity and peace, I bid my reader a hearty English "Good-by."

ITINERARY OF A TOUR IN ENGLAND,

COMPRISING THE PRINCIPAL CATHEDRAL TOWNS

INDEX.

Birmingham, entrance to, 17; Caernarvon Castle, 8, 9.