The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832

WILTON CASTLE

"MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS"—EGGS

THE CURFEW BELL

THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

SPANISH SCENERY

ANECDOTE GALLERY

THE UNLUCKY PRESENT: A TALE

THE NATURALIST

LOUDON'S MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY

STRUCTURE OF BIRDS

THE RHINOCEROS BIRD

THE SKETCH-BOOK

RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

LONDON AND THE PROVINCES COMPARED

INFANCY

STATE OF SOCIETY IN NEW SOUTH WALES

THE GATHERER

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Wilton Castle.

Here is one of the ivy-mantled relics that lend even a charm to romantic nature on the banks of the Wye. Its shattered tower and crumbling wall, combine with her wild luxuriance, to form a scene of great picturesque beauty, though, as Gilpin observes, "the scene wants accompaniments to give it grandeur."

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The scenery of the WYE, at this point is thus described by tourists: "From Hereford to Ross, its features occasionally assume greater boldness; though more frequently their aspect is placid; but at the latter town wholly emerging from its state of repose," it resumes the brightness and rapidity of its primitive character, as it forms the admired curve which the churchyard of Ross commands. The celebrated spire of Ross church, peeping over a noble row of elms, here fronts the ruined Castle of Wilton, beneath the arches of whose bridge, the Wye flows through a charming succession of meadows, encircling at last the lofty and well-wooded hill, crowned with the majestic fragments of Gooderich Castle, and opposed by the waving eminences of the forest of Dean. The mighty pile, or peninsula, of Symonds' Rock succeeds, round which the river flows in a circuit of seven miles, though the opposite points of the isthmus are only one mile asunder. Shortly afterwards, the Wye quits the county, and enters Monmouthshire at the New Wear.

The Rev. Mr. Gilpin, in his charming little volume on Picturesque Beauty,2 has a few appropriate observations: after passing Wilton—

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