Parry's railway companion from Chester to Holyhead1848 |
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Aberffraw afterwards ancient Anglesea antique arches Arms Asaph Bangor Bart Beaumaris beautiful bishop British built Bulkeley Caernarvon Caernarvonshire Cambrian Mirror carriages castle celebrated Chester and Holyhead church coach considerable Conway cyte Deganwy Denbigh distance Dublin earl Edward elegant embankment England erected extensive feet Flint formerly fortress gentleman Gwynedd harbour Henry hills Holyhead Railway honour horse Hotel Ireland iron king kingdom land late Liverpool Llanrwst London Lord mansion Menai Bridge Menai Straits miles Mostyn mountains neighbourhood noble North Wales Owen packets parish parliament passengers passing Penmaen Rhos Pennant Penrhyn Penrhyn castle pier present principal quarries queen residence Rhuddlan RHUDDLAN CASTLE Rhyl Richard river Dee road rock Roman royal scenery seat seen shore Sir John situated splendid Stanley station Stephenson tons towers town tube tubular bridge tunnel Vale of Clwyd venerable vessels viaduct walls Welsh William yards
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Page 98 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 28 - Holborn Bridge, London, and will be at the house of Mr. Francis Cox, the Angel and Hen and Chickens, in the high town...
Page 107 - It was a great honour to a poor gentleman of Wales to lose his head with such noble lords ; for by G — , he was afraid they would have hanged him...
Page 58 - During the time that Henry Earl of Richmond was secretly conspiring the overthrow of the house of York, he passed concealed from place to place, in order to form an interest among the Welsh, who favoured his cause on account of their respect to his grandfather, Owen Tudor, their countryman. While he was at Mostyn, a party attached to Richard III. arrived there to apprehend him. He was then about to dine, but had just time to leap out of a back window, and make his escape through a hole, which to...
Page 50 - ... that they are not well contented therewith. But if it please our Lord, I will help you to govern them better than they have been governed in time past.' King Richard then answered him, ' Fair cousin, since it pleaseth you, it pleaseth us well...
Page 23 - ... been given to them, and by such declaration the owner shall be bound, the Company not being in any event liable to any greater amount than the value so declared.
Page 114 - They lie couched, and yet the height of each is 12 feet, the greatest breadth across the bod; is nine feet, the length 25 feet, the breadth of each paw two feet four inches. The tubes are made of plates of iron, of various thicknesses, riveted together. The iron increases in thickness as we proceed towards the centre. The roofs of the tubes are formed of cells, and also the floors. These cells are formed of iron plates set on edge, the cells of the roof being within a fraction of one foot nine inches...
Page 58 - Richmond, was secretly conspiring the overthrow of the house of York, he passed concealed from place to place, in order to form an interest among the Welsh, who favoured his cause on account of their respect to his grandfather, Owen Tudor, their countryman. While he was at Mostyn, a party attached to Richard the Third arrived there to apprehend him.
Page 115 - The carriage-roads pass through two arches, in the suspending piers, of the width of 9 feet, by 15 feet in height to the spring of the arches. To counteract the contraction and expansion of the iron, from the effect of...
Page 26 - Banger, where we ferried over into Anglesey, and then put my wife into the litter again, for never was or can come a coach into that part of the country...