arch. Then recede, till you see the water under the bridge. This is rather more distant than the view usually taken. Wilson's (engraved by Canot) is nearer, so is Laporte's in Malkin's Work. In this station you see less of the formally pointed parapet, and more, I think, of the noble rock in the back ground, without losing the peculiar features of the bridge. A glimpse of the road descending from the bridge, and of the more distant one under the rock, add further variety to the picture. New Bridge, or Pont y Prydd,* is well known to have been built by a self-taught architect, William Edwards, a native of the neighbourhood. He completed it in 1755, after two successive failures. Impatient of its bondage, twice the flood Rush'd o'er the ruin'd bridge; again his hand SOTHEBY. *From Pont ty Pridd, Mid-house Bridge. The arch is probably now the largest in the world; its span being one hundred and forty feet, which is forty-two feet wider than the Rialto.* If you creep underneath, you may awake a curious echo there. I heard it repeat a single sound nine times in quick fainting succession. The scenery of the Tafft above the bridge is rich, and worth tracing two miles on the left side, but it did not afford me a picture. The waterfall about half a mile up will not do; but the view of the bridge from the rocks in the middle of the river there, should not pass unnoticed, and a few hints perhaps may be picked up. Just above the cascade, for instance, an arch of pendent birches springs from the rocky steep on your left-a useful bit for the corner of a foreground. The Rontha Vawr, a narrow, rapid stream, running into the Taff a little below New Bridge, will * Malkin, p. 88. Taff or Tav, the Broad water.Rontha, from Yr Hondda the good and clear.-Vawr is the feminine of Mawr, great. For these and other derivations I am indebted to an ingenious friend. furnish two sketches. Crossing the bridge to the left, you presently fall into the road along the right side of the Rontha, and in about a mile and a half come to another bridge, the veriest contrast possible to Pont y Prydd. A narrow footing of the trunks of trees, rudely fastened together, and defended by a slight rail, is suspended across the river by two lofty posts at each end; the ascent is by a flight of ladder steps. Thus lightly constructed, the bridge takes a graceful bend upwards from the centre, swinging to and fro with the wind. You should draw it from the right bank, and looking down the stream, to catch the distance. STATION. Bring the point where the hanging woods meet, over the middle of the bridge; then move backwards or forwards, till both the distant mountains are visible. (Pl. 1, fig. 1.) Half a mile further are two waterfalls; the first worth sketching. The river, crossed by a range of rocks of no great height, falls over in several |