THE SPRINGS OF PLYNLIMMON: A POEM, (WITH COPIOUS NOTES) DESCRIPTIVE OF SCENERY AND CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH THE SEVERN, THE WYE, AND THREE WHICH EMANATE FROM THAT NOBLE MOUNTAIN. BY THE REV. LUKE BOOKER, LL.D. F.R.S.L. VICAR OF DUDLEY. Lovely Scenes "invite the Song- Draw the Landscapes bright and strong." WOLVERHAMPTON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM PARKE, MDCCCXXXIV. 280. 973 TO THE MOST NOBLE HENRY PELHAM PELHAM CLINTON, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, K. G. LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM, CUSTOS ROTULORUM OF NEWARK, STEWARD & KEEPER OF SHERWOOD FOREST, AND HIGH STEWARD OF RETFORD: MY LORD DUKE, I rejoice that the Cambrian Paradise, Hafôd, which boasts your Grace its Possessor, is so connected with the chief Subjects of the following Poem, as to render this Dedication an act of the strictest Propriety. I, therefore, solicited the Honour of thus prefixing to it your Grace's Name; and am much gratified in having my Request condescendingly granted. The whole Province around Hafôd was, in ancient times, consecrated by the Muse of Taliesin : and it continues so, by his Relics still reposing at no great distance. As he was fortunate in win |