Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEETING AT LLANDRINDOD, June 28TH, 1867. On Friday, the Woolhope Club paid a visit to Llandrindod. The morning was dull and overhanging and a shower of rain fell here and there. The barometer, however, was too high to expect much rain, and there was a full attendance of members. The Club met at the Barton station and elected the following gentlemen as new members: ?J. H. Arkwright, Esq., Hampton Court; the Rev. B. J. Owen, Tretire; the Rev. Edw. Palm, Linton; Mr. James Pitt, Freetown; and the Rev. W. P. S. Stanhope, Holm Lacey; and, having transacted the ordinary business, set off by the 9.45 train, receiving an accession to their ranks at nearly every station. By the kind co-operation of Messrs. Henshaw, Broughton, and Bishop, the managers of the several lines of railway, they were enabled to reach Llandrindod by mid-day. Leaving the train to make its journey, we will take the opportunity of saying a few' words about that pride of Herefordshire, aye, of England, the fair river Wye, and her salmon produce and prospects. Who does not call to mind old Michael Dray ton's picture of the wood nymphs, rushing forth in haste with uncombed locks, to see the wedding between the lovely Lug and princely Wye; and whether we read the pages of Ireland, Gilpin, Roscoe, or even more modern writers, we find everywhere a tribute paid to its exceeding beauty Shall we be dumb in its praise ? The spirit of the age, seeking to make all rivers pure and untainted by pollution, unfettered by mill-weirs, and productive of a vast supply of fish, bids us take a notice of it we have never done before; and is it not a labour of love, as well as a duty, that we owe it ? The mountains, with their iron rocks, the kings of the universe, and the lovely valleys lying at their feet, have long been our ...