A historical tour through Pembrokeshire / By Richard Fenton.

  • Fenton, Mr. (Richard), 1746-1821.
Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A historical tour through Pembrokeshire / By Richard Fenton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for that purpose, must take the liberty of digressing from that which connects Fishguard with St. David’s, to adopt a route pro- ductive of circumstances calculated to awaken the finest feelings in the bosom of the philosopher, the historian, the patriot, and the Briton, few of which have even been noticed, and none pressed with effect on the attention, or forciby brought home to the heart. The first object that solicits the traveller’s eye is the bay of Fishguard, in form of a crescent, bounded to the N. E. by Dinas Head, a bold projecting promontory; and to the N. W. by Penainglas, a wedge-shaped head-land, sloping gradually from the high ground of Penyrhiw to the sea, a little beyond the rocks called the Cow and Calf, which make the roadsted or anchoring place generally enlivened by a fleet of vessels of different burden that ride here with perfect safety from all winds but the north and north-east, when, in cases of extremity in violent storms from those points, they may have the advantage of drifting on Good- wick Sands, and by that means preserving both their crew and cargo. Few sea prospects possess more beauty than this, for here the eye is not suffered to lose itself in a boundless expanse of ocean, but is limited to a space where every object may be distinctly measured, and from its excursions over which it never returns unsatisfied. Its sinuous coast, consisting of projections endlessly varying in shape and height, and backed by a gradation of re- tiring distances, formed by hilly and mountainous inland in- equalities, exhibits an outline, though not of the grandest character considered as Pembrokeshire rocks in detail, yet unrivalled for pleasing variety and general effect. After feasting on this charming view, I cross a small one- arched bridge over a brook, abounding with trout, that takes its n 2