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Now, free from the ground, the bows of the vessel began to rise and fall as she curtsied politely to the stream, which was just on the turn, preparing to bid adieu to Cardiff harbour; so, Captain Billings himself jumped from where he had been standing, by the pilot's side, to the wheel, making the spokes rapidly fly round until the helm was hard up, putting the ship before the wind and steering towards the mouth of the harbour ahead.
Journeying westward from Cardiff along the coast of Glamorganshire, upon the Bristol Channel, we come to the Welsh Bay of Naples, where the chimneys replace the volcano of Vesuvius as smoke-producers.
Cardiff, Swansea, and Newport became important ports; and places that few had ever heard of before like Ystradyfodwg or Blaenau Ffestiniog became the centres of important industries. But, in 1832, Wales was still mainly pastoral and agricultural; and the Act, though it did much for the towns, left the representation of the counties in the hands of the same class.
A note lay upon the dining-room table. Hambledon was away in Cardiff, and he had left word in case I should return unexpectedly. The place was cold and fireless, and I was glad to go over to the Claredon to have my dinner. My one thought was of Gabrielle Tennison, who lived with her mother in a maisonette at Earl's Court.
Arundel was dead; but the infernal generalissimo of the persecutors, who could not die, was ready with a worthy successor. Henry Chichele stepped into the vacant seat, and the fierce battle against the saints went on. The nephew of the deceased Archbishop, Thomas Earl of Arundel, presented himself at Cardiff early in the year.
'Thus his flag was inaugurated with blessing from on high, and "Many is the time since," said 3am, "when souls have been blessed under it, both at Cardiff and at Hayle." I have said nothing about the infidels I had to work amongst when I first came to this place.
The Bristol Channel also concentrates the great wave which gives Chepstow and Cardiff a tidal range of thirty-seven or thirty-eight feet at springs, and forces the sea up the river Avon so as to give Bristol a wonderful tide. There is hardly any more interesting spot in our islands for the observation of tides than is found on Clifton Suspension Bridge.
The industrial potentialities of the former are not to be compared with those of the latter, while for healthful airs and charming environment we have all that earth can give, and therewith should be content. Cities have been made as the marquis of Bute made Cardiff, by constructing a dock, and ship canal, and converting the ancient castle into a modern palace.
They seem to say the place lies out of everyone's track close down against the Somerset coast or, it may be, Devon: they're not clear. Anyway," he wound up vaguely, "at Cardiff there may be pleasure steamers runnin', or something o' the sort." "Bill, you're an angel!" "I shipped for a stoker," said Bill. "But what'll it cost?"
"Yes!" cried Tom Cardiff, "we've spoiled it for this one place, but they'll be at it somewhere else." "What do you mean?" asked Joe. "I mean that they've gone somewhere else!" exclaimed the assistant keeper. "They've made tracks away from here, but they've gone to some other place to set up their light, and try the same thing they were going to try here.
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