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He can also be precise and connoisseur-like, as when he describes the cataract at Llan Rhaiadr: "What shall I liken it to? I scarcely know, unless to an immense skein of silk agitated and disturbed by tempestuous blasts, or to the long tail of a grey courser at furious speed.
"Is that in Welsh?" said I. "No," replied the woman, "it is the BOLTON CHRONICLE, my husband reads it." I sat down in the chimney-corner. The wind was now howling abroad, and the rain was beating against the cottage panes presently a gust of wind came down the chimney, scattering sparks all about. "A cataract of sparks!" said I, using the word Rhaiadr.
After I had proceeded some way up the pass, down which a small river ran, a woman who was standing on the right-hand side of the way, seemingly on the look-out, begged me in broken English to step aside and look at the fall. "You mean a waterfall, I suppose?" said I. "Yes, sir." "And how do you call it?" said I. "The Fall of the Swallow, sir." "And in Welsh?" said I. "Rhaiadr y Wennol, sir."
Feeling could not be very warm for them, they were so small, and a sea that had drowned her ran between; and looking that way she had scarce any warmth of feeling save for a white rhaiadr leaping out of broken cloud through branched rocks, where she had climbed and dreamed when a child.
Such is the Rhaiadr y Wennol, or Swallow Fall; called so from the rapidity with which the waters rush and skip along. On asking the woman on whose property the fall was, she informed me that it was on the property of the Gwedir family.
* A district of Radnorshire, forming the present hundred of Rhaiadr. The Blessed man was unanimously chosen commander against the Saxons. And then, not by the clang of trumpets, but by praying, singing hallelujah, and by the cries of the army to God, the enemies were routed, and driven even to the sea.* *V.R. This paragraph is omitted in the MSS. Again Vortigern ignominiously flew from St.
Feeling could not be very warm for them, they were so small, and a sea that had drowned her ran between; and looking that way she had scarce any warmth of feeling save for a white rhaiadr leaping out of broken cloud through branched rocks, where she had climbed and dreamed when a child.
"What is Rhaiadr?" said the woman; "I never heard the word before." "Rhaiadr means water tumbling over a rock," said John Jones "did you never see water tumble over the top of a rock?" "Frequently," said she. "Well," said he, "even as the water with its froth tumbles over the rock, so did sparks and fire tumble over the front of that grate when the wind blew down the chimney.
It was a happy comparison of the Gwr Boneddig, and with respect to Rhaiadr it is a good old word, though not a common one; some of the Saxons who have read the old writings, though they cannot speak the language as fast as we, understand many words and things which we do not."
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